Flashcards
Exploration
Flashcards do conjunto (10)
- 1Age of Discovery1450-1650
- 2Motives for ExplorationThe 3 G's-"God, Glory, or Gold"
- 3Prince Henry the Navigatorof Portugal made yearly trips to West Africa, sends gold back to Portugal; he paid for other voyages of exploration
- 4Christopher Columbussails west to find a new sea route to Asia. Columbus believes he is the West Indies Discovers the New World.
- 55 Effects of his discoverynative population wiped out by European diseases like smallpox causes the importation of slaves from Africa.
- 6Ferdinand Magellan1st explorer to "circumnavigate" (sail around) the world
- 7Columbian Exchangeexchange of plants & diseases between the Americas and Europe result of European exploration of the New World
- 8The 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
- 9Conquistadorsname for Spanish conquerors/explorers
- 10Triangular Slave Tradea 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 for sugar or molasses, which was brought back to New England to be manufactured into rum.
