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Unit 3 review
Causes and Effects of the Age of Discovery
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was Prince Henry the Navigator? | The prince of Portugal who created a school of navigation souring on the Age of Exploration |
| Why did Europeans set sail to explore? | To create empire, to search for new markets and economic opportunities, and to spread christianity |
| Who was Vasco De Gama? | Portuguese sailor who circumnavigated Africa to reach Asia |
| Who was Christopher Columbus? | Spanish Sailor who sailed west o get East and discovered the Americas in the process |
| Who was Hernando Cortes? | A spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire in modern-day Mexico |
| Who was Francisco Pizarro? | A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Civilization of Peru and Chile |
| Who was Ferdinand Magellan? | Spanish Mariner who is credited as the first to circumnavigate the Earth |
| Who was Sir Francis Drake? | The Englishman credited with circumnavigating the Earth |
| Who was Jacques Cartier? | A French Mariner who navigated into the St. Lawrence River in hopes of finding a Northwest passage |
| What was the Old World? | Europe,Africa, and Asia |
| What was the New World? | The Americas |
| What was the Columbian exchange? | The biological and cultural exchange between the Old and New worlds instigated by the voyages of Columbus |
| What went from the Old to the New world in the Columbian exchange? | Largely diseases and livestock, but some agricultural products, like citrus as well |
| What went from the New to the Old world in the Columbian exchange? | Agricultural products like tobacco, peanuts, corn, cotton, etc |
| What legacy did the colonial governments in Latin america leave? | A rigid social class system and a dictatorial form of government |
| What caused the African slave trade? | The death of the indigenous population of the Americas |
| What was the middle passage? | The journey of African slave ships across the Atlantic to the Americas |
| What was the Triangular Trade? | The trade of goods between Europe,Africa, and the Americas- from Europe, manufactured goods, from Africa slaves, and from the Americas raw materials |
| How did the African slave trade affect Africa? | Depleted their population of the fittest members of society & led to intertribal warfare |
| What was mercantilism? | Monopolistic trade system between mother country and colonies benefiting the mother country |
| What was the Commercial Revolution? | The advent of banking, financing, and mercantilism which led to economic growth in Europe |
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