Question | Answer |
Age of Discovery | 1450-1650 |
Motives of Exploration | the 3 G's- "God, Glory, or Gold. |
Prince Henry the Navigator | of Portugal made yearly trips to South Africa, sends gold back to Portugal; he paid for other voyages of exploration. |
Christopher Columbus | sails west to find a new sea route of Asia. Columbus believes he is in the West Indies. Discovers the new world. |
Effects of his discovery | native population wiped out by European diseases like smallpox causes the importation of slaves from Africa. |
Ferdinand Magellan | 1st explorer to "circumnavigate" (sail around the world). |
Triangular slave trade | the way slaves were imported to different states. |
The Middle Passage | (part of the triangular slave trade) it's the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas made by slave ships . Many Africans died during the voyage. |
Conquistators | a conqueror |
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