Exploration

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Flashcards on Exploration , created by chester1 on 09/11/2015.
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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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