Exploration and Empire

First to sail directly from Europe to India

• Bartolomeu Dias 
• Vasco Da Gama 
• Hernan Cortez
• Christopher Columbus 

First to lay claims in Canada

• Jacques Cartier

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Christopher Columbus

Time period during which Europeans explored the world starting in 1400's 

• Renaissance
• Reformation 
• Middle Ages 
• Age of Exploration 

Settled in a new territory or land while the homeland country maintains control

• Colony

• exploration

• Mercantilism

• economy

Explorer credited with the discovery of the New World

• Ferdinand Magellan 
• Christoper Columbus
• Bartolomeu Dias 
• Sir Francis Drake 

(16th-19th centuries) Captured Africans were transported across the Atlantic under horrific conditions to labor in the Americas in mines and plantations.

• Favorable balance of trade
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Vasco de Gaman

What part of the map is shaded?

• French Empire
• Spanish Empire
• Portuguese Empire
• New England

The map shows whose route?

• Christopher Columbus
• Vasco Da Gama
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Marco Polo

What part of the map is shaded?

• French Empire
• Axis Powers
• Spanish Empire
• Portuguese Empire

The decline of the population of Native Americans and the use of plantations to make money led to:

• England starting the slave trade
• the end of slavery
• bringing Asians in to work on plantations
• the start of African slavery