Exploration
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- Astrolabe
- a device to measure latitude using the position of the stars. Allowed countries to searach for new trade routes
- Columbus
- Looking for Asia by sailing west, but "discovered" the Americas for Spain in 1492.
- Spain
- First country to explore "New World" Enslaved Indians-forced them to work in mines and on encomiendas
- Columbian Exchange
- Great exchange of people, plants, animals and disease between Eastern and Western Hemispheres
- Silks and spices
- Trade with Middle East (for silks and spices) increased because of the Crusades
- Cortez
- Spanish explorer who conquered the Aztecs
- Caravel
- Allowed countries to search for new trade routes
- French
- Looking for NW Passage (Dutch and English, too)
- Gold, God and Glory
- Spain was seeking wealth (gold); was spreading religion (God) and wanted to create an empire (Glory)
- Champlain
- Father of New France: Quebec, Great Lakes; Lake Champlain
- Italian Monopoly
- They controlled route to Middle East so merchants looked for another all-water route to Asia
- English
- Looking for "Northwest Passage" in New World
- Conquistadors
- Spanish word for Conqueror
- Northwest Passage
- Too far to go around tip of South America so searching for a shorter "Northwest Passage" instead