Age of Exploration

Where did Vasco Da Gama go?

india

Where did Ferdinand Magellan go?

Around the world. Died in the phillipines

Where did Francis Drake go?

Strait of Magellan. Returned home

Where did Christopher Columbus go?

Cuba

Where did Francisco Pizarro go?

Peru

Where did Jaques Cartier go?

Canada

Where did Hernan Cortes go?

Mexico

Where did Prince Henry go?

Western Africa

Where was Francisco Pizarro from?

Spain

Where was Ferdinand Magellan from?

Portugal

Where was Francis Drake from?

England

Where was Jaques Cartier from?

France

How did the influence of Catholic and Protestant colonists affect the Americas?

Europeans spread their religions throughout their designated colonies

What did Europeans want from Africa?

Slaves

What did the Africans accept in exchange for slaves?

Salt, Gvns, Alcohol

What happened as a result to Africa?

Decrease in population

what was the triangular trade?

The exchange of goods, services, and people between Europe, Americas, and Africa.

Goods from Americas to Europe

Sugar, Tobacco, Cotton, Rum, gold, silver, indigo

goods from Europe to africa

Guns, iron, cloth, Rum, tools, beads

goods from Africa to the americas

Slaves and Ivory

what was the Columbian exchange?

Explorers go to the Americas, find goods, and bring them home

What is the slave trade?

taking africans to sell for labor

why did Europe begin the slave trade?

Money and they needed a labor source

where did the enslaved people go?

America, Canada, Latin America, South America

What was the number one problem on the slave ships?

The slaves could overthrow the ships

Who brought the africans over?

Middle easterners