Question | Answer |
Age of Discovery | 1450-1650 |
Motives for Exploration | The 3 G's-"God, Glory, or Gold" |
Prince Henry the Navigator | of Portugal made yearly trips to West Africa, sends gold back to Portugal; he paid for other voyages of exploration |
Christopher Columbus sails west to find a new sea route to Asia | Columbus believes he is the West Indies Discovers the New World. |
Effects of his discover | 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 |
Columbian Exchange | exchange of plants & diseases between the Americas and Europe result of European exploration of the New World |
The Middle Passage: | (Part of the triangular slave trade) its the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas made by slave ships. Many Africans died during the voyage |
triangular slave trade | transatlantic slave trade, that operated , carrying slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers, with the northern colonies of British North America |
The Middle Passage | (Part of the triangular slave trade) its the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas made by slave ships. Many Africans died during the voyage |
conquistadors | name for Spanish conquerors/explorers |
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