Question | Answer |
age of discovery | 1450-1650 |
motives for exploration | the 3 g's god,glory,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 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 tp "circumnativgate" |
columbian exchange: | exchange of plants and diseases between the Americas and Europe result of European exploration of the New world . |
triangular slave trade: | the transatlantic slave trade , that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries . carrying slaves , cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa , Caribbean or American colonies and the European colonial powers . |
Middle passage : | it's the journey across the Atlantic ocean from africa to the americans made by slave ships . Many africans died during the voyage . |
conquistadors: | name for spanish conquerors/ explorers . |
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