Unit two review age of exploration

Astro lab

A device that determine the latitude of a ship through measuring the altitude of sun or a star

Colombian exchange

The trade of goods between early Europe and the America’s trying time of Columbus. This trade introduced the new goods to Europe in the Americas.

Middle passage

Legs of triangular trade route from Africa to the New World enslaved Africans were treated harshly and men did not survive the journey

Northwest passage

Seemed direct sea route to Asia that went through the north America. Many explorers searched for this boat. It was never found.

Bartholomew, Diaz

Portuguese explorer whose accomplishment with sailing to the southern tip of Africa known as the Cape of Good Hope in 1488

Vasco da Gama

Portuguese explorer whose accomplishment was sailing from Europe to India completely by CN 1497

Bartholomew de La Casa

the Spanish priest, his accomplishment was being the first advocate for civil rights of the Native Americans in new Spain

Ferdinand Magellan

The first explorer to circumnavigate the world

Who funded Columbus’s voyage

Spain

describe the effects of exploration of the Americas

settlement of colonies, enslavement of Native Americans death of dead Americans from diseases, new Food sources and new materials

how did the Spanish treatment the Native Americans?

they killed an enslaved natives

Social class system of Spain

Peninsula were white Europeans from Spain top of the social pyramid

Creoles or children born to Spanish parents from Spain in the Americas full Peninsula

Mestizos were offspring by Spanish and Native Americans in the Americas below Creoles

Natives

Why did explorers come to the New World? What did they want?

God, gold and glory

Describe the economy of new France, how the colonist made a living

The French colonist made their living through fishing and trapping animals for their fur. They also made friends with the natives who taught them survival skills.

How did the Spanish attempts to convert the natives to their religion?

By creating missions and force, they said they would die

How did the Dutch tree the native?

They built trading relationship and looked at them for business associates

Describe the negative impacts of European expiration on the native

It led to thousands of people dying because of diseases and enslavement

Describe the impact Spanish exploration had on the empire

Destroyed the entire empire

Advantages

Shipping, trade food and water

Disadvantages

Possible attacks and flooding

Why were early colonial settlements located near water sources/natural harbors

Positive and negative effects of settling here early colonials were settled near water, oceans and rivers