Exploration and Colombian Exchange Flashcards
Three G’s
Gold, Glory, and God
The main reason
Desire to build wealth through change
Christopher Columbus
Sailed west from Europe to find a quicker route to India lad a claim for Spain in the West Indies
Prince Henry of Portugal
Established a school for sailors. (Prince Henry of the Navigators)
Bubonic Plague
People blamed God for it. Trade helped spread it, 1/3 of population died, spread by fleas on rats
Explorers from Portugal
Sailed around Africa trying to find an all water route to Asia
Bartholomew Diaz
explored the southern tip of Africa
Vasco De Gama
found the first water route to Asia for the country of Portugal
Ferdinand Magellan
The first to circumnavigate the globe
True of False: Spanish Conquistadors did not make friends with the native Americans
True
European explorers made native Americans…..
made them convert to Christianity, took their land, and tried to make them slaves
Forced Migration
forced to move against their will
Indigenous
Native
The Colombian exchange
Wide spread transfer of plants, animals, culture, humans, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the old world.
caravel
small highly maneuverable smiling ship used during the 15th and 16th centuries
Columbus
First to discover a trade route between the new world and the old world
Columbus’s ships
Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria
due to the Colombian exchange ____ was imported from Africa to work the land
slaves
_____________animals were brought to the new world
pigs. sheep, cattle, and chickens
compass
came from China and proved very effective tool in navigating
gunpowder
from China by way of the silk road and became the basis for every weapon
True or False: Due to vast improvement In technology exploration would expand greatly
True
colonization took place
took place throughout the world during thins time and the 1700s
colonization definition
Action or process of selling among and establishing control over the indigenous people of an area
Great Britain/ England
East Coast of the U.S.
France
Above Maine/ Canada
Spain
Western US, Mexico, Western South America
Portugal
Eastern South America
