CH 2 Exploration

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

• Renaissance
• Reformation 
• Middle Ages 
• Age of Exploration 

Explorer credited with the discovery of the New World

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

How did the Colombian Exchange affect many Americans Indian groups?

• They grew in number

• They died from diseases

• They became prosperous

• They were forced to move

Why did European monarchs want a sea route to Asia?

• Muslim and Italians controlled the land routes

• Rulers of China refused to allow use of the land routes

• Harsh weather made the land routes too dangerous

• Horses and camels were requried on the land routes

What in one way Henry the Navigator changed Europeans' view of the world?

• He sailed to the Spice Islands

• He started a school for sailors

• He explored the coast of Brazil

• He sent settlers to set up colonies

refers to the stage of triangular trade in which slaves were transported to the New World

• conquistador

• mestizo

• encomienda system

• Middle Passage

three sided trade of goods and slaves between Europe, Africa, and the New World

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and New World

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

What was the initial reason many European explorers sailed to the Americas?

• To find new trade routes to Asia

• To form military alliances

• To spread Christianity to Africa

• To find new sources of cheap labor

a sea passage between the Atlantic and Pacific along the north coast of North America

• Northwest Passage

• Mayflower Compact

• Columbian Exchange

• Proclamation of 1763