Age of Exploration & Gunpowder Empires

This explorer was the 1st to circumnavigate the world, and later died in the Philippines on his voyage.

• Vasco De Gama

• John Cabot

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Black Beard

This Explorer was the first to establish an Indian trade route by sailing south around the Cape of Good Hope.

• Vasco de Gama

• Bartholomew Dias

• John Cabot

• Hernan Cortez

What was Ponce De Leon's purpose for exploring? 

• To find Christopher Columbus and his crew.
• To find the Pacific ocean
• To find India and a quicker route to the New World.
• To find gold and the Fountain of Youth

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What is the Columbian Exhange?

• Exchange of ideas between America and Europe

• Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.

• Exchange of disease between colonists and Native Americans.

• Exchange of money between the Wergild and Ordeal

Europeans began exploring the world because they wanted to:

• gain riches from Asia like silk and spices
• prove that the world was flat
• discover a New World
• All of these are true

The motivation to explore for Europeans included:

• the desire to spread their religion
• the need to move to a new continent
• the need to build new and better ships
• All of these

This chart represents the: 

• Age of Exploration
• The European Plan of Attack
•  Route of Columbus's First Voyage
• Columbian Exchange

Europeans living in the New World who had been born in the Americas (second on hierarchy)

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

• Mestizos

• Mulattos

• Zambos

Europeans living in the New World who were born in Spain or Portugal (first on hierarchy)

• Peninsulares

• Creoles

• Mulattos

• Mestizos

• Zambos

Person living in the New World who had European and American Indian mixed parentage (third on hierarchy)

• Mestizos

• Peninsular

• Mulatto

• Zambos

• Creoles