Exploring the Age of Exploration and Slavery

The video explores the Age of Exploration, highlighting the Spanish and Portuguese quests for new trade routes to Asia for spices, gold, and silver. It covers the voyages of Prince Henry, Columbus, and Vasco da Gama, and the Treaty of Tordesillas. The video also discusses life on ships, the Columbian Exchange, and the European conquest of the New World, focusing on the Aztecs and Incas. It concludes with the Triangular Trade and its impact on enslaved Africans.

What was the primary motivation for the Portuguese and Spanish to explore new trade routes?

• To trade for spices, silver, and gold

• To find new lands for settlement

• To escape from their own countries

• To spread their religion

Who was the Portuguese prince that led explorations along the West Coast of Africa?

• Vasco da Gama

• Christopher Columbus

• Prince Henry

• Ferdinand Magellan

In what year did Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic Ocean?

• 1488

• 1492

• 1500

• 1519

Which treaty divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal?

• Treaty of Lisbon

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Tordesillas

What was one of the main challenges faced by sailors during the Age of Exploration?

• All of the above

• Pirate attacks

• Lack of food

• Scurvy and other diseases

What was exchanged between the Old World and the New World during the Columbian Exchange?

• Only goods

• Only diseases

• Goods, animals, and diseases

• Only animals

Who led the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire?

• Francisco Pizarro

• Christopher Columbus

• Hernán Cortés

• Ferdinand Magellan

What was the primary goal of European explorers in the New World?

• To map new territories

• To spread Christianity

• To find gold and other riches

• To establish trade routes

What was the Triangular Trade?

• A trade route between Asia, Africa, and Europe

• A trade route between the Americas, Asia, and Europe

• A trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

• A trade route between Africa, Asia, and the Americas

What was the Middle Passage?

• The trade route between Europe and Asia

• The journey of European settlers to the New World

• The route taken by explorers to circumnavigate the globe

• The sea voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas