Exploration and Colonization

What did Queen Isabella do for Christopher Columbus?

• sponsored his exploration
• married him
• made him royalty

What was Christopher Columbus' purpose for exploration before discovering the New World?

• To find a faster and safer trading route to Asia
• To circumnavigate the world in the name of Italy
• To launch a surprise attack the enemies of Spain by sea
• To find the city of gold in southern Africa

Amerigo Vespucci

• Discovered South America as its own continent, North and South America named After him
• Thought he landed in the East Indies, called local people Indians
• Gets the credit for first European to circumnavigate around the world
• First European to make it to North America

In regards to the Columbian Exchange, what was the major factor that killed majority of the Native Americans?

• They died from starvation
• They died from disease
• They died from battle
• They died from poor nutrition 

Why were the diseases from the Europeans so deadly to the Native Americans?

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• They had no medicines or immunity to the diseases

Which was traded from the Old World to the New World?

• horses and major diseases

• squash, pumpkins, and turkeys

• cocoa and horses

• cocoa and llamas

Which was traded from the New World to the Old World?

• major diseases

• horses

• potatoes and corn

• slaves

What was the motivation for exploration?

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• Gold, God, Glory

• Land, food, water

• Position in the government

What is mercantilism?

• A system where a mother country gains power by exporting more goods than they import.

• where colonies trade gold and silver with each other.

• A theory that global wars that start over money so countries should avoid it.

• Plantation colonies trading slaves for money.

This explorer, "discovered" America for Europe, and made 4 successful voyages to modern day Cuba.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Bartholomew Dias

• Francisco Pizarro