Ch.2 European Exploration and Settlement Flashcards
Who was the first European explorer, who spent 17 years in China?
hint: He was known as a “the man of a million tales”
Marco Polo
Where was Marco Polo from?
Venice, Italy
The region that Maro Polo explored, India and East Asia, become to be known as ________?
The Indies
What is the name of the time period during which the great explorers were inspired?
hint: “the period of lively new thinking” & “rebirth”
The Renaissance
Where was Christopher Columbus from?
Italy
Who did Christopher Columbus convince to pay for his voyage?
KIng Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
In what year did Columbus set off on his journey?
1492
What was the name of the first island that Columbus discovered?
Convinced that Columbus had landed in the “Indies”, He named the native people what?
San Salvador
Indians
How many trips did Columbus make to the Caribbean? and while he thought he had found Asia, what was name of continent he discovered?
What did Europeans call this region?
Columbus made four trips, finding more islands.
The true name of these continents is North and South America
“The New World”
Columbus’ voyages created a great transfer of people, plants, animals and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean. What was this transfer called?
“The Columbian Exhange”
Name some of the valuable new items brought to Europe from the new world?
Corn and Potatoes
What did The Europeans bring to the Native Americans that wiped out much of the population?
small pox and other diseases
Why did Slavery come to America?
European settlers relied on the forces labor of Native Americans to work their sugar plantations and gold mines. When disease wiped out their labor force, they turned to African slaves to do the labor.
