Explorers/ Columbian exchange Flashcards
“Henry the Navigator”
Made a school for navigators. It brought in lots of navigators
Impact of school of navigators
Magnetic Compass, astrolabe,
People that were familiar with Arabic maps, genoese, lots of famous Portuguese people.
Caravel
Small but able to be on ocean.
Two sails
Bartholomew diez
School of nav
Sailed to tip of Africa and conevted to Indian ocean
Vasco de Gama
School of nav
Sailed to tip of Africa
Pedro Cabral
Claimed Brazil for Portugal on accident
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty between Portuguese and Spain for what to settle Portuguese got middle of world(brazil-part of Australia)
1494
Ferdinand Magellan
First to circumnavigate world 1519
Died in Philippines from Natives
Herman Cortès
Conquered Aztecs in 1519 got help from other native tribes
Malintzin
Native women guide and translator for Cortez
Moctezuma
Leader of aztects Welcomed Spanish belived he was an Aztec God
Tenochtitlan
Capital of Aztects
Francisco Pizzaro
Conquered Incas by kidnapping king and by guns and swords
Athalialpa
Capital of Incas
4 Main new Organisms introduced to new word
Diseases: Small Pox killed 3 mill
Animals: Cattle, pigs, sheep Destroyed environment
Crops: Wheat, Weeds/ Dandelions
Horses: Changed how Native am lived and spread across continent.