Age of Exploration

What are colonies?

• a territory controlled by another country

• large farms that usually used slave labor

• tools used for navigation and exploration

• people that travel from one country to another

What are plantations?

• large farms that usually used slave labor

• land controlled by another country

• the trade of enslaved Africans from Africa to the Americas that last for about 300 years

• small-scale farms only used to support the needs of the owners

What are expeditions?

• tools used for exploration

• the original people living in a land before the arrival of another group

• a journey taken by a group of people for a certain purpose

• the process of planning and following a route

What does "indigenous" mean?

• people whose main goal is to explore and trade

• people who leave their original home for a new land

• the people who arrive in a land where there are already other people living there

• the original people living in a land before the arrival of another group

What does "navigation" mean?

• taking over other people's land

• the process of planning and following a route

• the science of drawing maps

• a journey taken by a group of people for a certain purpose

the trade of enslaved Africans taken from Africa to the Americas that lasted for about 300 years

• The Columbian Exchange

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• The Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

the widespread transfer of plants, animals, goods, diseases, ideas, cultures, etc. between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• The Middle Passage

• The Columbian Exchange

• The Transatlantic Slave Trade

• The Hemispheric Handshake

the sea journey that transported 12 million enslaved Africans to the Americas in horrible conditions between 1550 and 1850

• navigation

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• The Middle Passage

• The Columbian Exchange

an economic policy by which nations try to get rich by establishing colonies and controlling trade

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Colonization

• Triangular Trade

an economy in which regular citizens, not governments, own and run businesses and compete against each other for profits

• Colonization

• Socialism

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism