Exploration Of Latin America Flashcards
What are the three G’s?
Gold, God, and Glory
How does exploration happen?
Explorers want to find newer, safer routes to Asia
Why can’t the explorers take the Silk Road without problems?
Mongols controlled much of the area and often attacked the explorers
What was the solution to finding a new way to Asia?
To head west
What was the first country to head west?
Portugal
Who created a Navigational School?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Who found a route around Africa to get to Asia?
Vasco de Gama
Where is Columbus from?
Italy
What was Spain’s plan?
To travel the Atlantic to get to China (They even had a letter for the emperor of China)
When did Columbus set sail for the New World?
1492
When Columbus hit New York where did he think he was?
Off the coast of an island in Japan
Who was the person that officially recognized that the New World was America?
Amerigo Vespucci
Did Columbus discover America?
No, for hundreds of years Native Americans lived in North and South America and Vikings had settled there at least 500 years before
Why was Columbus’s voyage so significant?
Because of immediate contact and connection
Columbus’s voyages may have had greater consequences BLANK than BLANK
biologically and culturally
What was the Columbian Exhange?
Worldwide distribution of plants, animals, diseases
What is a list of some plants that Europe gave to the Americas?
Rice
Wheat
Barley
Coffee
Sugarcane
Melons
Olives
Dandelions
Ragweed
What did the Americas give to Europe?
Corn (Maize)
Potatoes
Beans
Cacao-Chocolate
Chicle-Gum
Pumpkins
Guavas
Squash
Tobacco
What animals did Europe give to the Americas?
Horses
Cattle
Pigs
Sheep
Goats
Chickens
What animals did the Americas give to Europe?
Llamas
Alpacas
Guinea Pigs
What diseases did Europe give to the Americas?
Measles
Chicken Pox
Small Pox
Yellow Fever
Malaria
Flu
Cold
What diseases did the Americas give to Europe?
Syphilis
Hepatitis
Polio
Tuberculosis
What were some of the effects of the Columbian Exchange?
Both Hemispheres were introduced to each other’s cultures: food, animals, plants
They were both introduced to diseases that affected 90% of the Americas population
Why did the Native American die of the diseases of the Europeans but the Europeans were affected as much?
Native Americans were isolated for so long there bodies were never exposed to these disease and the Europeans had been around sickness their whole life, they were used to it.
