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Age of Discovery
Causes and Effects of the Age of Discovery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Target A: Who was Prince Henry the Navigator | Prince Henry "The Navigator" was a Portuguese Prince who set up a school to teach navigational technology and cartography |
| Target A: Why did Europeans set sail to explore? | To find alternative routes to the Silk Road , Trade with the Ottoman = navigational arts from the Islamic World, Prince Henry opened a school of navigation, European Catholics = spread the word of God, European rulers competed to expand their empires |
| Target B: Who was Vasco De Gama? | Portuguese First to circumnavigate Africa to reach Asia |
| Target B: Who was Christopher Columbus? | Spain "Discovered the Americas" by crossing the Atlantic Ocean |
| Target B: Who was Hernando Cortes? | Spain Conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico |
| Target B: Who was Francisco Pizarro? | Spain Conquered the Inca Empire in Peru Crossed the Panama Canal --> Pacific Ocean --> explored South |
| Target B: Who was Ferdinand Magellan? | Spain First to circumnavigate the world Dies in the Philippines |
| Target B: Who was Sir Francis Drake? | England First Englishman to circumnavigate the world |
| Target B: Who was Jacques Cartier? | France Explored the St. Lawrence River inland Traveled west --> North America not Latin America Claimed part of Canada Northwest Passage |
| Target C: What 2 countries colonized most of Latin America? | Spain and France |
| Target C: What 2 countries completed to colonize what became the US and Canada | France and England |
| Target D: What was the Old World? | Afro Eurasia Africa, Europe, and Asia |
| Target D: What was the New World? | The Americas |
| Target D: What was the Columbian Exchange? | The cultural and biological exchange between the Old and New World |
| Target D: What went from the Old to New World in the Columbian Exchange? | Domestic animals- horses, cattle, chickens Food- wheat, bananas, grapes, dandelions, rice Diseases- smallpox, measles, typhus, diphtheria |
| Target D: What went from the New to Old World in the Columbian Exchange? | Crops- corn, sweet/potato, beans, nuts, seasoning crops, tobacco, cocoa, cochineal |
| Target D: What legacy did the colonial governments of Latin America leave? | Colonial governments left a legacy of a rigid class system and dictatorial rule |
| Target D: What caused the African salve trade? | The loss of labor from the indigenous populations due to the introduction of diseases |
| Target D: What was the Middle Passage? | A series of routes where Africans were forcibly transported from Africa to the Americas by crossing the Atlantic |
| Target D: What was the Triangular Trade? | A triangle shaped trade that connected Europe, Africa, and the West Indies Europe- manufactured goods Africa- The Middle Passage (slaves) West Indies- raw materials |
| Target D: How did the African slave trade affect Africa? | 1- Europeans created trading posts along the coast 2- The gun-slave cycle = escalation of warfare between African civilizations 3- Destroyed African families and removed fittest members of African society depleting Africa of its human potential |
| Target D: What was mercantilism | An economic practice adopted by European colonial powers in an effort to become self-sufficient based on the theory that colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country |
| Target D: What was the Commercial Revolution | A period of economic expansion in Europe due to an increase in colonization and trade funded by joint-stock companies, banks, and governments |
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