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What does it mean to "circumnavigate the world" ?
travel around
What continents were a part of the Columbian Exchange?
Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas
What was the Northwest Passage?
The northwestern route to Asia that Europeans were trying to find.
What name did Christopher Columbus give the Native Americans?
Indios
What does navigation mean?
something that can be used to guide you to a destination
What is colonization
When a country starts a colony in a new place
What 4 countries were a major part of the Age of Exploration
England, France, Spain, Portugal
What continents were a part of the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Europe, Africa, Americas
What was life like aboard slave ships?
lonely, cramped, miserable, dark, damp, smelly, they were chained, beaten
The triangular trade process where Europeans would trade goods in Africa, for enslaved Africans. They would sell/trade those Africans in the Americas as slaves, for goods such as cotton or tobacco to take back to Europe.
Atlantic Slave Trade
small, fast ship used for long journeys easy to manuever
caravel
A navigational tool that can measure the latitude of a ship at sea
astrolabe
a navigational device that uses Earth's magnetic pull to determine North
compass
A triangular sail, with a 45 degree angle, that allowed ships to sail in any direction
lateen sail
Know for being the first to circumnavigate the world
Ferdinand Magellan
Known for being the first European explorer to explore Florida
Juan Ponce de Leon
Known for being the European explorer that began the Age of Exploration
Christopher Columbus
Reasons for the Age of Exploration
western route to Asia, gold/fame, new lands
What was the exchange of ideas, fruits, vegetables, livestock, people and diseases between the Old World (Europe, Asia, Africa)& the New World (Americas).
Columbian Exchange
Give me an example of something that was traded during the Columbian Exchange:
horses, cows, pigs, llamas, guinea pigs, beans, potatoes, slaves, diseases, ideas, citrus fruits, peanuts, etc
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