Questão | Responda |
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 | Thought he discovered the "New World" and or a new route. |
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 |
Columbian Exchange | exchange of plants & diseases between the Americas and Europe result of European exploration of the New World |
The Middle Passage | the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas made by slave ships. Many Africans died during the voyage |
Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors/explorers |
Triangular Slave Trade | A pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies |
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