Age of exploration

Motivation discovery

Trade in luxury goods

High demand

High price

Who controlled trade?

The Muslims

What did europeans want to find a sea route to?

Asia (India)

What kind of new sails were there?

Triangular

The caravel

What ship had a wider beam and was large?

Compass, astrolabe, sextant instruments

What was used to guide ships?

Astrolobe

An astronomical and navigational instrument that used a mathematical technique called stereographic projection to the map the celestial sphere onto a flat plate

Sextant instrument

a navigational item used to determine the angle between two distant points, such as celestial objects

Wheel lock pistol and iron cannons

What new weapons were there?

Prince Henry

Who began a school for navigators?

Bartolomeu DIas

The first to sail around the southern tip of africa

Vasco de gama

Discovered the first direct water route between Europe and India

Alfonso de Albuquerque

A conquistador who expanded Portuguese influence across the Indian ocean

Cristobol Colon

Believed the world was round, Found North America and the Bahamas

The Taino

The natives Christopher Columbus first met

Ferdinand Magellan

A map maker who sailed

Amerigo Vespucci

Proved that the Americas were a new continent

Hernan Cortez

Arrived in Montezuma, Mexico; Conquered the Aztec

Smallpox

What was the Europeans secret weapon against the natives?

Francisco Pizarro

Conquered the Inca in 1519

Potesi, Peru

Where was the silver strike?

Haciendas

Landed estates with natives

Ecomienda

System that gave natives as a labor force

Repartimento

Replaced the ecomienda; Made natives give a tax of their labor

The black legend

Brutal treatment of the natives and africans

Triangular trade

Goods from europe → africa for slaves → america

The middle passage

Route which took slave ships from Africa to the new world

The Colombian exchange

The exchange for food, animals, and crops that occurred as a result of the contact of the old and new world