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Motives/ Means Explorers and Nations Triangle Trade Slave Trade

Row 1, Col 1 What commodity encouraged early European exploration? SPICES

1,2 Which explorer is credited with the first circumnavigation of the world? Ferdinand Magellan

1,3 What three continents were involved in the triangle trade? the Americas, Africa, and Europe

1,4 Why was slavery not new to Africa when the Europeans showed up? Slavery had been practiced in Africa for many years

2,1 What were the 3 main motives for European exploration of the New World? God, Gold, Glory

2,2 After what explorer is our continent named? Amerigo Vespucci

2,3 Come to the board and draw a diagram of the triangle trade. (First Group to complete correctly Wins!!!) Europe---Africa----Americas---Europe

2,4 What manufactured good from Europe really helped to set off the slave trade in Africa? Guns

3,1 What explorer first demonstrated that spices could be carried as cargo from Asia and sold for tremendous profit? Vasco de Gama

3,2 What country did Christopher Columbus sail for? Spain

3,3 Describe the economic impact of the Triangle Trade on each of the regions involved: Europe, Africa, and Americas Europe-becomes importers of raw goods and exporters of finished or manufactured goods Africa-stripped of cultural vitality through slavery Americas-simply produce the resources for the mother country---colonial relationship

3,4 How did Europeans convince, or force, one tribe to help them enslave neighboring tribes? By giving them guns. The tribe with the guns would be able to dominate the other tribes in the area.

4,1 From what people/civilization did the Europeans get the technology necessary to undertake open ocean journeys?? And name 2 pieces of technology they began to use. From the Arab world. They received charts / the compass / the astrolabe / triangle sails / and new style of ships called "caravels"

4,2 Name the 3 nations that were most heavily involved in the Spice trade in Southeast Asia Portugal, Spain, Dutch (Netherlands)

4,3 What the longest and most brutal journey of the triangle trade called? The Middle Passage

4,4 Describe how the countries on the interior of Africa (not on the West coast) were impacted by slavery. They were not impacted. Most interior cultures remained intact as the Europeans did not venture into the interior of the continent.

5,1 What were the lasting impacts of explorers such as Columbus and others on the native populations of the New World. Describe why this happened. Answers will vary: decimated populations based on disease, violence, oppression, slave labor, conquistadors, encomiendas, etc

5,2 Why were the European nations able to undertake such long and expensive journeys into the "New World?" Powerful central governments, wealthy monarchies, Renaissance curiousity, Arab technology

5,3 Describe the goods that were traded on the different legs of the Triangle Trade. Europe to Africa=Guns, cloth, manufactured goods Africa to Americas=Slaves America to Europe=Gold, Sugar, Cotton

5,4 What were the reasons that Europeans chose to use Africans as slaves in the New World? Familiar with crops and plantation/farm work Did not know the land and would be less likely to escape Strong people