Unit 3: Age of Exploration

What prompted the Europeans to pick up and set sail to explore?

• Interest in foreign goods, profitable trade routes, fame for leaders, and spreading Christianity

• The desire to dominate all of Africa, America, Australia, and Asia

• Europeans were not the leaders during the age of exploration

• Europeans had too many people and not enough food, leading them to search the globe for new food sources

How did the European Slave trade start?

• The English decided they wanted to profit off of slave trade with the Americas

• Portuguese returned from their explorations with African captives.

• Native Americans started enslaving each other as Prisoners of War

• Africans captured their own people and traded them to places like India and Australia to be used as slaves

How was the Aztec Empire conquered?

• Guns and diseases helped Cortes weaken and defeat the Aztecs

• The invention of the machine gun helped Cortes weaken and defeat the Aztecs

• Influenza helped Cortes weaken and defeat the Aztecs

• The Portuguese conquerors helped Cortes weaken and defeat the Aztecs

Who funded Columbus's journey west?

• Portugal

• Italy

• Spain

• France

Spanish conquerors of America were called...

• emperors

• conquistadors

• governor-generals

• expatriates

What did the Chinese typically accept when trading their goods?

• Porcelain

• European goods

• raw materials

• Silver

Who was Japan's only main European trade partner until the 1800s?

• The French

• The English

• The Dutch

• The Spanish

Why didn't the Japanese trust the Portuguese?

• Religion and the presence of Christian Missionaries

• The Portuguese had began to enslave the Japanese

• Portugal attacked an important Japanese port city

• Portugal had become allies with the Chinese

The only major trading post in Japan for Europeans was located in a place called:

• Nagasaki

• Hiroshima

• Tokyo

• Deshima

Define Capitalism:

• Economic system in which poeple invest in trading and goods for profit/money

• Economic system in which all people receive the same amount of goods from the government

• Economic system in which there is no middle class

• Economic system in which you cut yourself off from all outside trade.