APUSH: European Exploration in the Americas

Christopher Columbus

Voyaged to discover the Americas in 1492

Leif Eriksson

Discovered Vineland in 1001 and Newfoundland (Canada)

Cog, carrack, compass, and astrolabe

What were four seafaring advancements from the 1200s -1481?

Johannes Gutenberg’s Printing Press

Lead to widespread mapmaking and more exploration

Feudalism

Separated into classes

1348

When was the Black Plague?

1/3-1/2

During the Black Plague, how much of the population died?

Catholic Church

Who unified a devastated Europe during/after the Black Plague?

Less peasants and more bargaining

The Black Death lead to what two “problems”?

Land taxes

Kings grant more privileges to peasants but still collect what?

Market economy

After the Black Death, what began to take a larger role in state affairs?

Trade

The decline of feudalism lead to increased what?

476 CE

When did the Roman Empire fall?

Germanic Tribes and Byzantine Empire

The fall of the Roman Empire created what two groups?

Constantinople

What is the center of the Byzantine Empire?

1453

When did the Ottoman Empire overthrow Constantinople?

Henry the Navigator

Funded seafaring expeditions but never went himself

Senegal, India, Indonesia, and China

Where did Henry the Navigator establish colonies?

Ghana

The Portuguese traded gold and slaves with who?

Civil War

After the Hundred Years War, France erupts into what?

War of the Roses

After the Hundred Years War, England fights what war?

711

When did the Muslims take over the Iberian Peninsula?

Four

By 1400, how many Christian Kingdoms are there in Spain?

Reconquista

Defeated the Muslim Moors in 1492

Jews

After the Reconquista, Ferdinand and Isabella kicked who out of Spain?