Why did they go to America

Question 1

Motivations

Answer 1

*Wanted to be famous/Wealthy
*Gold and silver
*Tobacco
*Opportunity, escape class structure
*Indentured Servitude
*Interest in world/exploring
*Spices (ginger, nutmeg, cinnamon)
*Tea
*Better navigation (astrolabe, magnetic compass, caravel)
*Marco Polo brings back jade and silk from India

Question 2

Effects

Answer 2

*Diseases brought to new world (smallpox, measles, typhus, and cholera), wiped out up to 95% of native population
*Guns and horses brought to new world
*Made natives give gold and silver
*Native give Europeans STDs
*Gold and silver cause inflation in Spain