Age of Exploration

The process of leaving one's country by ship to explore new lands.

• Exploration

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Sailing

The first trading of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between continents.

• Columbian Exchange

• Indigenous

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Controversial

The act of treating somebody as if they are not a human.

• Dehuminzation

• Exploration

• Middle Passage

• Indigenous

Both positive and negative

• Controversial

• Exploration

• Dehumanization

• Indigenous

The people who are native, or live in an area first.

• Indigenous

• Columbian Exchange

• Dehumanization

• Atlantic Slave Trade

To capture slaves in Africa, put them on ships and transfer them to North and South America.

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Indigenous

• Exploration

• Columbian Exchange

The step of the Atlantic Slave trade when the slaves were on a ship for about 3 months.

• Middle Passage

• Controversial

• Indigenous

• Exploration