| A | B |
| How Columbian Exchange impacted world | shortage of labor for cash crops led to African slavery, slavery based on race, new foods and products to Europe |
| How plantation system impacted Americas | destroyed environment, destroyed indigenous economies, created demand for African slaves |
| Who Vasco da Gama sailed for | Portugal |
| Ferdinand Magellan sailed for whom | Spain |
| Sir Francis Drake sailed for whom | Britain |
| country Jacques Cartier sailed for | France |
| Key Phrase motivating Age of Exploration | Gold, Glory, God |
| this event encouraged Atlantic nations to find new trade routes | Fall of Constantinople to Ottoman Turks |
| Countries which established joint stock trading companies and trading posts in Asia | Portugal,Netherlands, England |
| Aztec, Incan | Empires destroyed by the Spanish |
| These changed the lives of indigenous people in America | horse, cattle, smallpox |
| the need for cheap labor in Americas led to this | Importing African slaves |
| Spanish explorers/conquerors | Cortes, Columbus, Pizarro, Magellan |
| Journey of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas | Middle Passage |
| Brought to America from Europe | horses, cattle, smallpox, measles |
| Role of religion in Age of Exploration | millions of converts, Christians spread culture and languages, |
| Innovations in sea travel | astrolabe, compass, caravel |
| Reforms of Commercial Revolution | new money systems, new banking systems, mercantilism |
| Columbian Exchange | Exchange of new products and resources between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
| what caused high inflation in Spain | Spain's importation of gold and silver from the Americas |
| Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas | Francisco Pizarro |
| First explorer to circumnavigate the earth | Sir Francis Drake |
| Portuguese pioneer for navigation schooling and exploring coast of Africa | Prince Henry |
| First European to reach India by going around Africa | Vasco da Gama |
| Native people of a country | indigenous |
| This route connected the Indies, Europe and Africa | Triangular Trade |
| MERCANTILISM -- WD | ECONOMIC PRACTICE BASED ON THE THEORY THAT COLONIES EXIST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE MOTHER COUNTRY |
| INFLATION -- WD | SITUATION IN WHICH PRICES RISE QUICKLY WHILE THE VALUE OF MONEY DECREASES |
| Corn, Potato, Tobacco | products introduce to Europe |
| First explorer to reach the New World | Christopher Columbus |
| Era from 1450-1700 when Europe made changes to its economy due to exploration | Commercial Revolution |
| First NAVIGATION CREW to circumnavigate the earth | Magellan |
| Aztecs were conquered by this explorer | Cortes |
| To travel completely around the earth | circumnavigate |
| French explorer who claimed Canada for France | Jacques Cartier |
| Purpose of Christian missions | to convert indigenous people to Christianity |
| legacy of the Spanish on the Americas | Rigid Class System, plantation system, dictatorial rule |
| Built on the coasts of Africa and Asia by Europeans | trading posts |
| Americas | imitated the social patterns of the parent country |
| Religious reasons for exploration | escape religious persecution, spread Christianity, gain religious freedom |
| Establishement of Plantation system | result of the Columbian Exchange |
| Main continents of the Triangle Trade | Europe, Africa, Americas |
| Sell more than you buy | Favorable Balance of Trade |
| Horses, Christianity, sugar cane | brought to the New World |
| Year Columbus "discovered" America | 1492 |
| the products demanded in Europe which began the Age of Exploration | gold, spices, natural resources |
| How Indigenous people were affected by European colonization | died of disease, wealth stolen, slaves of Europeans |
| Why Europeans explored | convert indigenous people, wanted gold, spices, natural resources, glory for country and self |
| job of colonies under mercantilism | market for manufactured goods, raw materials for manufactured goods, don't buy goods from other nations |
| European nations competed for these | overseas markets, colonies, resources |