explorers test Flashcards
what country did Vasca Da Gama sail for?
Traveled around Africa to India
Portugal
what country did John Cabot sail for?
commissioned by England sailed to Canada claiming North America as English territory
England
what country did Francis Drake sail for?
hired by England to steal gold and silver from Spanish gallons returning from Mexico and South Africa
Form England
He was a professional pirate
what country did Jacques Cartier sail for?
Form France
sailed to Canada also claiming North America as French territory
what country did Hernan Cortes sail for?
He sailed for the coast of Mexico and was responsible for wiping out the Aztec people
from Spain
what country did Francisco Pizzaro sail for?
from Spain
sailed for Peru and conquered the Incas for Spain
what country did Bartholomeu Dias sail for?
From Portugal
he sailed around the tip of Africa
what country did Ferdinand Magellan sail for?
First person to circumnavigate the world
From Portugal
what country did Cristopher Columbus sail for?
He explored the Americas under the Spanish flag
born in Italy
what country did ponce De Leon sail for?
He searched for the fountain of youth, He discovered Florida, and HE SAILED for Puerto Rico
From Spain
what circumnavigate mean?
sail or travel all the way around
what does caravel mean?
a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
what does Astrolabe?
an instrument used by early astronomers to measure the altitude of stars and planets and also as a navigational aid.
what does Mercantilism mean?
new type of economic Polocy.
Nations depended on its wealth like gold and silver
colonies existed to make the mother country wealthy. they only trade with the mother country.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
the exchange of plants, animals. humans, bacteria, ad technology between the old world ( Europe Asia, and Africa) and the New world ( the Americas)
What was the triangle of trade?
Captured Africans became a part of network called the triangle trade.
The first leg- ships carrying manufacture goods to Africa in exchange for slaves.
The second leg- the middle passage. the passage from Africa to America where the slaves were changed togethering and had to lay on the ground for six weeks. Many people died or threw up on themselves but they never unchanged them.
The third leg- Carried American products to Europe
What were the reasons for exploring in the 1400s?
God: to convert the native American Indians to Christianity
Glory: fame
Gold: Money
What were the Columbus exchange negative and positives consequences?
positives: New world plants where spread to the old world and old world plants were spread to the new world
negative: it spread dieses that no one was immune to.
what was the Spanish social Hierarchy?
Peninsulares: People
born in Spain
Creoles: Parents born
in Spain; children born
in colonies
Mestizos: One parent of
European descent; one
parent of indigenous
descent
Indigenous People
What was the relationship between the African Diaspora, and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.
The Trans-Atlantic slave trade is reasonable for the African Diaspora because it spread the Africans all over the world.
what was the African Diaspora?
The spread of Africans across the world. Manly through slave trade.
who was Olaudah Equiano?
He was a freed slave who wrote about the conditions on the Middle passage. Helped end the slave trade in the British empire. His autobiography was very influential.
What did Hernan Cortes do in Mexico?
In Mexico Cortes defeated the Aztec people pretty much compleatly wiping them out.
What did Ferdinand Pizzaro do in Peru?
He wiped out the Incan people in Peru.
He captured there Emperor told the Incas to fill a large room with gold and silver. when they did he took the gold and killed the emperor
