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Motives/Means

Explorers and Nations

Triangle Trade

Slave Trade

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What commodity encouraged early European exploration?

SPICES

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Which explorer is credited with the first circumnavigation of

the world?

Ferdinand Magellan

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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 correctlyWins!!!)

Europe---Africa----Americas---Europe

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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 slaveryAmericas-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

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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 goodsAfrica 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 workDid not know the land and would be less likely to escape

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