Europe Sets Sail

Europe Sets Sail

by Majesty McPhail

​Why Europeans Explored!

• ​The 3 G's: Gold, Glory, and God

• ​Trade and the Crusades

• ​Foreign goods like silk and spices not available in Europe

• ​Rulers sought fame, power, and glory

• ​Doing this "in the name of God

• ​Heard about Marco Polo's journey east

Multiple Select

What would rulers gain from these explorers going to foreign lands?

• fame

• power

• glory

• nothing

Multiple Choice

Europeans exploration can be categorized as the 3 G's.

What were the 3 G's? 

• God

• Gold

• Glory

• All of these

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What were some of the foreign goods these explorers were after?

• Fossil fuels

• Gold

• silk and spices

• breads and meats

​Portuguese Explorers

​Prince Henry the Navigator: from Portugal

• ​took over Ceuta, muslim city in North Africa (big on trade)

• ​Because of this, Portugal gained access to African maps

• ​Explorers trained at his navigation school and sailed on his ships

• ​Returned with African slaves (beginning of European slave trade)

Multiple Choice

What was Ceuta?

• A European explorer

• A ruler during the Age of Exploration

• A muslim trading city in North Africa

• A city in Portugal

Multiple Choice

Did Prince Henry the Navigator explore distant lands?

• Ye

• No

Multiple Choice

Prince Henry the Navigator created a school to help future explorers.

What kind of school was it?

• Exploration

• Business

• Religious

• Navigation

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How did Prince Henry's navigation school impact different cultures later on?

• His trainees explored and brought back African slaves.

• His school helped start the European slave trade.

• He never explored the distant lands but his students did.

• His trainees sailed along the western coast of Africa on his ships.

​West Africa in the 1400s

• ​consisted of 100 independent kingdoms constantly at war over trade and land

• ​Enslaving captured enemies was common practice

• ​Winning kingdoms received slaves from losing kingdoms

• ​slaves were included in shipments with salt and gold

• ​Two kingdoms in particular: Kongo (on the Zaire River) and Ndongo (south) had dominated their neighbors and sold their enemies into slavery

Multiple Choice

What two kingdoms had dominated and enslaved their enemies?

• Zaire and Cameroon

• Zaire and Ndongo

• Kongo and Ndongo

• Kongo and Gamb 

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