Age of Exploration

Henry the Navigator

• Religion and language

• An Italian sailor who thought he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic

• Caravels

• He built an observatory and a navigation school to teach sailors how to find their way.

Vasco da Gama

• Sailed around Africa and landed on the west coast of India in 1498.

• Economic system in which individuals and private businesses run most industries

• Sailed along North America's western coast

• Go all the way around the world.

Christopher Columbus

• He built an observatory and a navigation school to teach sailors how to find their way.

• An Italian sailor who thought he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic.

• Sailed around along North America's western coast

• Sailed around Africa and landed on the west coast of India in 1498

Market economy

• Economic system in which individuals and private businesses run most industries

• Exchange of plants, animals, and ideas

• Individuals decide what goods and services they will buy

• Based on conquest and racism

Ferdinand Magellan

• Sailed around Africa and landed on the west coast of India in 1498

• A priest who said that the Spanish should try to convert American Indians to Christianity by showing them love, gentleness, and kindness

• Part of Spain's large, experienced navy

• In 1520 he led a voyage around the southern tip of South America.

circumnavigate

• Go all the way around the globe

• The belief that some people are better than others because of racial traits, such as skin color

• Network of trade routes which involved the exchange of raw materials, manufactured goods, and enslaved Africans among Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

• Christopher Columbus

Sailed on voyages of discovery in the 1400's and 1500's.

• Henry the Navigator

• Europeans

• Vasco da Gama

• Ferdinand Magellan

Francis Drake

• Sailed around Africa and landed on the west coast of India in 1498

• An Italian sailor who thought he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic

• Sailed along North America's western coast

• In 1520 he lead a voyage around the southern tip of South America.

Spanish Armada

• Collection of Maps

• Large farms

• Part of Spain's large, experienced navy

• A system in which family members worked in their homes to make part of a product

Columbian Exchange

• The relationship of goods imported to goods exported

• Large farms

• A system in which a government controls all economic activity in a country and its colonies to make the government stronger and richer

• Exchange of plants, animals, and ideas between the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (Europe)