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Turn in Vocab. Notebook Check. Explorers Warmup. ____ Discovered islands in the Caribbean (Cuba & Hispaniola ) ____ First to circumnavigate the world ____ Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and reached India ____ Discovered Quebec, Canada and the Great Lakes
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Explorers Warmup ____ Discovered islands in the Caribbean (Cuba & Hispaniola) ____ First to circumnavigate the world ____ Sailed around the Cape of Good Hope and reached India ____ Discovered Quebec, Canada and the Great Lakes ____ Made seven voyages around SE Asia, India, Arabia, and Africa ____ First European to discover Australia and New Zealand ____ Made a school of navigation Zheng He James Cook Samuel de Champlain Christopher Columbus Vasco da Gama Ferdinand Magellan Prince Henry
The Columbian Exchange • It was a global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas • Corn and potatoes came toEurope, Asia, Africa • Bananas, black-eyed peas, yams came toAmericas • Cattle, pigs, horses came to Americas • Diseases came to Americas & Europe
Mercantilism • Believed a country’s power depended on its wealth • Get more gold/silver • Selling more than buying • exporting more than importing
Capitalism • When you make money, YOU want to keep it! • Capitalism = based on private ownership of property • Right of a business to earn a profit on money it has invested • Do we have capitalism in the United States?
Triangular Trade • Trade route in 1500s-1800s between: • Europe • Africa • Americas • To obtain goods not from their homeland
Atlantic Slave Trade: Middle Passage • “Middle” of the Triangular Trade • Went from Africa to the Americas • Roughly 20 million Africans were taken from their homes • Were taken by force • Bribed leaders of their tribes to sell their own people
Doc A • 300-400 packed in a tiny area • 1-6 months • Disease was prevalent • Many died along the way
