Flashcards: European Exploration and Global Expansion — 15 cards

End of Middle Ages — event?

Fall of Constantinople in 1453

End of Middle Ages — significance?

Transition to modern era, trade disruption

Discovery of New World — date?

1492, Columbus's voyage

Columbus — landing site?

San Salvador in the Caribbean

European exploration — motives?

Economic, political, religious expansion

Vasco da Gama — route?

Sea route to India via Cape of Good Hope

Magellan — achievement?

First circumnavigation of the Earth

Hernán Cortés — conquest?

Aztec Empire in Mexico

Transatlantic trade — crops?

Tobacco, cotton, sugar cane

Triangular trade — system?

Europe, Africa, Americas exchange goods and slaves

Rise of slavery — cause?

Need for cheap labor in colonies

Humanist thinkers — Erasmus?

Promoted tolerance, education, critical thinking

Utopia — author?

Thomas More, critique of European society

Printing press — inventor?

Johannes Gutenberg, mid-15th century

Printing — impact?

Spread of ideas, Renaissance culture