Exploration Flashcards
Circumnavigation
A complete navigation around an entire island or continent
Ethnocentrism
One’s own nationality thinks there better than others
Who was Ferdinand Magellan
A Portuguese explorer that circumnavigated the world
Expansionism
Territorial expansion by a nation
Colonization
Taking control of an area that is not your own
Christopher Columbus
A navigator who explored the America under the flag of Spain
Mutiny
Refusal by people or soldiers or sailors to continue obeying a person in authority
Bartholomeu Dias
First European edition round the Cape of Good Hope opening the sea route
Patriotism
Feeling of love over a sense of attachment to a country or state
Imperialism
Ruling policy of establishing and enforcing rule of a nation on outside people or countries
Vasca da gama
Portuguese navigator who voyages to India
New world
Majority of land of earth western hemisphere in Americans
Age of exploration
When Europeans explored and colonized and conquered parts of the world
Motivations for exploring
The satisfaction of curiosity, spread of religion and the desire for political power
Effects of imperialism on the indigenous people
Loss of land diseases, residential schools, migration, loss of culture
Spain’s achievements
Inventions cultural contribution, scientific technological development
Portugal’s achievements
Discovery inventions food plus wine
Francis achievements
Inventions French revolution, Eiffel, Tower, fashion,
England achievement
English language, English legal system football, the web Christianity
Why were European nations so interested in exploring?
Curiosity and adventure, needed to find gold and silver, to keep growing, and wanted to grow their religion
Why did the fact that European minds were running out of gold silver affect their economy?
Because without it, their economy couldn’t grow
