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Question | Answer |
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Who was Prince Henry the Navigator? | The prince of Portugal who created a school of navigation souring on the Age of Exploration |
Why did Europeans set sails to explore? | To create an empire, to search of new markets and economic opportunities |
Who was Vasco de Gama? | Portuguese sailor who circumnavigated Africa to reach Asia. |
Who was Christopher Columbus? | Spanish sailor from Italy who sailed West to get East and "discovered" Americas in the process |
Who was Hernando Cortes? | A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire in modern-day Mexico |
Who was Francisco Pizarro? | A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan civilization of Andean Peru and Chile |
Who was Ferdinand Magellan? | Spanish mariner who is credited as the first to circumnavigate the Earth |
Who was Sir Francis Drake? | The first Englishman credited with circumnavigating the Earth |
Who was Jacques Cartier | A French mariner who navigated into the St. Lawrence River in hopes of finding a northwest passage |
What was the Old World? | Europe, Africa, and Asia |
What was the New World? | The Americas |
What was the Columbian Exchange? | The biological and cultural exchange between the Old and New Worlds instigated by the voyages of Columbus |
What went from the Old to New World in the Columbian Exchange? | Largely diseases and livestock, but some agricultural products, like citrus, as well |
What went from New World to the Old World? | Agricultural products like tobacco, peanuts, corn, cotton, etc. |
What legacy did the colonial governments of Latin America leave? | A rigid social class system and a dictatorial form of government |
What caused the African slave trade? | The death of the indigenous population of the Americas |
What was the Middle Passage? | the journey of African slave ships across the Atlantic to the Americas |
What was the Triangular Trade? | The trade of goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas; from Europe, manufactured goods, from Africa slaves, and from the Americas raw materials. |
How did the African slave trade affect Africa? | Depleted their population of the fittest members of society and led to intertribal warfare |
What was mercantilism? | monopolistic trade system between mother country and colonies benefiting the mother country |
What was the Commercial Revolution? | The advent of banking, financing, and mercantilism which led to economic growth in Europe |