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USI U3: Exploration
European Exploration Full Unit Review
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Why were major European countries in competition? | They wanted to extend their power into North America and claim the land as their own. |
| Motivations for exploration | Gold- economic God- religious Glory- competition for empire and belief in superiority of own culture |
| Economic reasons for exploration | gold, natural resources, spices, trade |
| Religious reasons for exploration | to spread Christianity |
| Obstacles to exploration | disease and starvation, poor maps and navigational tools, fear of the unknown, lack of adequate supplies |
| Accomplishments of exploration | exchanged goods and ideas, improved navigational tools and ships, claimed territories |
| Francisco Coronado | claimed the southwest of the present-day United States for Spain |
| Samuel de Champlain | established the French settlement of Quebec |
| Robert LaSalle | calimed the Mississippi River Valley for the French |
| Portugal | made voyages of discovery along the coast of West Africa |
| Interaction between American Indians and Europeans - | sometimes cooperative and other times resulted in conflict |
| Spanish | - conquered and enslaved American Indians - brought Christianity to the New World - brought European diseases to Native Americans |
| French | - established trading posts - spread Christian religion |
| English | - established settlements and claimed ownership of land - learned farming techniques from American Indians - traded with American Indians |
| American Indians | - taught farming techniques to Europeans settlers - believed the land was to be used and shared but not owned |
| Areas of cooperation in economic interaction | weapons, metal farm tools, trade, crops |
| Areas of conflict | land, competition for trade, differences in culture, diseases, language differences |
| Nations that dominated West Africa from 300 to 1600 AD | Ghana, Mali, Songhai |
| Location of Ghana, Mali and Songhai | the western region of Africa, south of the Sahara Desert, near the Niger River |
| How Ghana, Mali and Songhai gained power. | by controlling trade |
| Items traded by the Portugeuese from Europe to West African Empires | metals, cloth and other manufactured goods for gold |
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