Age of Exploration

The global slave trade that transported between 10 and 15 million enslaved Africans across The Atlantic Ocean to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Triangle Trade

• The Middle Passage

• The Transpacific Slave Trade

Considered the "in-between" portion of the Slave Trade was the waterway from Africa to the Americas. Sickening cruelty characterized this journey. In African ports, European traders packed Africans into the dark holds of large ships.

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Middle Passage

• Triangle Trade

• Northwest Passage

The three G's for motives include all of the following EXCEPT

• Goods

• Glory

• God

• Gold

This imaginary line divided the the Atlantic Ocean. Spain could claim all land west of this line, Portugal east.

• circumnavigate

• Line of Demarcation

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Columbian Exchange

Europeans explored the globe during the Age of Exploration search for _________________

• new plants and animals

• new religions

• new natives to learn from

• new lands and trade routes

This country wanted control of important ports in Southeast Asia and around Africa

• France

• Spain

• England

• Portugal

This country wanted to colonize in the New World and sailed East.

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

• England

This man was labeled as a slave trader and would worked with Europeans to sell slaves

• Columbus

• Marco Polo

• King Afonso of Congo

• Vasco de Gama

Why were the mainland states better able to resist the European challenge than the states in the Malay Peninsula and the Indonesian Archipelago?

Name the four styles of Monarchy.