Unit 3
Exploration and Colonization by Joanna Pagar
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- Trans-Saharan trade
- Connected North Africa Muslims & Western African Kingdoms.
- Christopher Columbus
- explored for Spain, first to find the New World and establish colonies
- European sea and river trade
- Traveled in barges and ships. Traded with various European countries. Traded irons,furs,textiles,silver,coal,and wine. Technology and ideas exchanged- language.
- 4 Gs
- God,Gold,Glory,and Gain
- mother country
- The country of origin of settlers or colonists in a place.
- Black Sea trade
- Travel in ships. Traded with merchants (Europeans) in Constantinople. Traded agricultural goods,furs,enslaved people (Europe) for spices,copper,gems,silk. Technology and ideas exchanged- Islam,medicine,astronomy,and mathematics.
- Francisco Pizarro
- Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas
- Francis Drake
- English explorer who was the 2nd person to circumnavigate the world, defended England from Spain, helped start the slave trade.
- Hernando Cortez
- Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs
- smallpox
- An acute, contagious disease marked by high fever and sores on the skin which killed many native americans
- Columbian Exchange
- The exchange of plants,animals,diseases,ideas and human populations between the Old & New World after1492.
- numeral system
- A system for writing numbers from India and the MiddleEast
- maritime routes across Indian Ocean
- Connected Europe and Asia for trade (numeral system)
- plantation
- A large estate or farm on which crops are raised.
- Indigenous
- native; Ex. plant indigenous to the New World
- sugarcane
- Major crop on plantations.
- Diffusion of Christianity
- the Society of Jesuits sent many missionaries to convert Native Americans.
- silk road
- Across Asia to Mediterranean Basin ( paper, compass, religion)
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Spanish explorer who was given credit for being 1st to circumnavigate the world.
- Vasco de Gama
- Portuguese, 1st to sail to India around Africa
- compass
- Shows direction (given to us by the Chinese)
- Jacques Cartier
- French explorer who explored around the St. Lawrence River
- Triangular Trade
- A trade pattern in the 16th-19th century that connected Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
- Commercial Revolution
- A period of European expansion,colonialism,and mercantilism.
- colony
- A group if immigrants living in a new land away from, but under the control of the parent country.
- mercantilism
- A dominant economic theory of the Age of Exploration that was based on the theory that wealth = power and that colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country.
- S China Sea Trade
- Traveled in ships. Traded with India and Southeast Asia and later on trader with Europeans. Traded spices,sugar,melons,tapestries,and silk. Technology and ideas exchanged- Hinduism and Buddhism
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- established navigation school in Sagres,Portugal.