1. Exploration MMW Review

2. Why did people explore at that moment in history?
Crusades – holy wars, spread ideas/goods
Renaissance – rebirth of art and learning
Technology – made it easier to travel and spread ideas
Religious – stand up for Christianity
Economic Motives – need direct trade routes
Developed Nation States – consolidate money into one power, depended on trade to bring in revenues

4. Why did people explore?
GLORY – to gain respect and power for their country
GOLD – to gain material wealth and riches from the new land
GOD – to spread Christianity

5. Who were major explorers?
Christopher Columbus – Americas
Nunez de Balboa – Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan – Circumnavigation
Vasco DeGama – rounded Africa
Henry Hudson – NY Harbor, Northeast
Cartier – St. Lawerence River, Canada
Giovanni da Verrazano – Northwest Passage but NY Harbor

6. Which countries explored?
Spain – Central/South America, Conquistadors, Gold/Silver, Encomienda system
France – North America, traders
English – North America, Jamestown, Plymouth

8. What was the relationship between the Americas, Europe and Africa?
Columbian Exchange – the exchange of cultures, foods, ideas, people and animals
Triangle Trade – the exchange of goods from one location to another

9. Sugar, Tobacco, Fur Cotton
Manufactured Goods
Slaves, Gold

10. What is the relationship between the Natives and the Settlers?
Enslavement
Disease
Rigid Class Structures