European Exploration and expansion

Question 1

What caused the age of exploration

Answer 1

The renaissance = spirit of discovry
Serach for wealth
advances in technology

Question 2

Routes to india

Answer 2

Sail around Africa or go west

Question 3

What did explorers use to calculate their location?

Answer 3

1. Compass
2. Astrolabe

Question 4

What type of ship did they use?

Answer 4

Caravel
Light fast

Question 5

What were Portugals kings

Answer 5

Patrons of the explorers

Question 6

King Henry the navigator

Answer 6

Wanted to find a water route around Africa to India
Portugese

Question 7

Bartolomeu Dias

Answer 7

Fist European to attempt to sail arout the southern tip of Africa “Cape of Good Hope”
Portugese

Question 8

Vasco de Gama

Answer 8

First to make it to Clicut, India and back to Portugal
Second trip to India
Sailed to brazil and Indonesia
Lucrative trading posts
Portugese

Question 9

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

Answer 9

Helped fund certain voyages
Spain

Question 10

Christopher Columbus

Answer 10

Sailed to west India, America was in the way.
Spanish

Question 11

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 11

First to realize Columbus was not in India but a new world. America was named after him.
Spanish

Question 12

Vasgo Nunez de Balboa

Answer 12

tried to find passage at Isthums of Panama
realized there is another ocean to cross to get to India
First to find the pacific ocean from the new world (Panama canal today)
Spanish

Question 13

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 13

Sails west to sail Around the world
Left with 250 men returned with 18
Magellan died during the trip
Spanish

Question 14

Circumnavigate

Answer 14

To sail completley around the world

Question 15

John Cabat

Answer 15

Sailed to Canada
English

Question 16

Sir Frances Drake

Answer 16

Sailed to the southern tip of South America and stopped over in modern day California
2nd to circumnavigate the whole world
English

Question 17

Henry Hudson

Answer 17

Tried to find the Northeast passage but found ice instead
English
Explored Hudson Bay region in search of Northwest Passage
For the Dutch

Question 18

Jacques Cartier

Answer 18

Sailed into the St. lawerence River Candada, new france or Newwfoulndland
Fur trade
Frech

Question 19

The Columbian Exchange

Answer 19

Contact between Native Americans and Colonists lead to the exchange of plants, animals, and disease

Question 20

Mercantilism = Hands on economy

Answer 20

New type of economic policy
Nation’s strength is dependent on wealth in gold and silver
Fixed amount of wealth, nations compete for it
Balance of trade
Countries seek to limit imports and maximize exports
countries have its own source for raw materials and precious metals
No dependence one others
Colonies exist only to make mother country profit
A countries colony should not trade with another country.

Question 21

Balance of trade

Answer 21

Under mercantilism countries profit in 2 ways
Extract gold and silver from mines
Sell more goods than bought

Question 22

Balance of trade

Answer 22

The difference in vale between what a nation imports and exports over time.

Question 23

How did countries create a balance of trade

Answer 23

Tariffs on imported goods
Finished goods are more expensive than raw material
control oversea sources of raw materials.

Question 24

Colonies on the economic policy

Answer 24

Economic Policy is bad for colonies.
Mother country gets benifets

Question 25

What was the Impact on society

Answer 25

More businesses
Wealthy merchant middle class grows
Columbian Exhange impacts foods

Question 26

Capitalism

Answer 26

Economic system in which most buisnesses are privatley woned.

Question 27

Price revolution

Answer 27

1470-1620

Question 28

Inflation

Answer 28

Raises prices

Question 29

Joint stock company

Answer 29

Businesses formed by a group of people making a joint investment, then sharing the profits and losses.
Ex: British East India Company & Virginia Company

Question 30

What started slave labor?

Answer 30

High demand for labor
shortage of labor
indentured servants were too expensive

Question 31

Triangular trade

Answer 31

A trading network from the 1600s to 1800s that carried goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas and Africa

Question 32

Middle passage

Answer 32

The voyage that brought slaves from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indes

Question 33

Where did Slaves work in colonies

Answer 33

Plantations, mines, towns, contryside

Question 34

How did slaves cope

Answer 34

Cultural traditions
Religion
Destroyed fame equipment
Attacked slaveholders
Ran away

Question 35

Effects of the slave trade

Answer 35

Helped build the economies of the American colonies.

Question 36

What is African Diaspora

Answer 36

The dispersal of people of African descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe due to the slave trade