History - European Exploration & Expansion TEST

original goal of exploration

new trade routes, wealth, & spread religion

1st two European countries to explore

spain & portugal

3 continents of the old world

asia, Europe, & Africa

2 continents of the new world

NA & SA

motivations of European exploration

god - religion, glory - fame, & gold - money

country that invented compass & how it works

china, accurately tracks direction

country that invented astrolabe & how it works

muslim empire, determine location at sea

prince Henry & what he did

prince portugal, sponsored explorations/navigation school

Bartolomeu dias

sailed from portugal to bottom of Africa

vasco da gama

sailed from portugal to Indies

Christopher Columbus

located in Bahamas -- thought it was East Indies

amerigo Vespucci

found new world & named it after himself

Ferdinand magellan

circumnavigated the world

John cabot

1st to land in NA

sir Francis drake

explored W coast of America

Henry Hudson

mapped NE coast of NY, Canada, established dutch

Jacques cartier

claimed Canada for France

Aztecs(location, last ruler, conquistador)

Mexico, motecuhzoma, & hernando cortez

Incas(location, last ruler, conquistador)

peru, Atahualpa, frâncico pizallo

4 continents involved transatlantic slave trade

europe, Africa, NA, SA

why couldn’t the spanish use natives as slaves

got sick too easily & retaliated

brutalities that slaves faced

forced to eat, filthy tubs, abused, men forced to dance, thrown overboard, & no space/tightly packed

country that started slave trade

portugal

columbian exchange & how it works

exchange of plants, animals, diseases, & people between the old & new world -- it changes the world by introducing new things to both worlds (old & new)

middle passage

FORCED voyage of enslaved africans across the Atlantic Ocean to new world