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Unit 3 Notes
European Exploration
1.
The three worlds talked about in this Unit, Three
Worlds Meet, are Europe, Africa, and the
Americas.
2.
New World – the name of the lands across the
Atlantic Ocean, named by European Explorers.
3.
Old World – the name people used for countries
in Europe such as: England, France, Holland,
Spain, Italy, and Portugal.
4.
Age of Exploration – began in the late 1400’s
when European explorers looked for new routes
to Asia and discovered the Americas.
5.
Archeologists – a scientist studies artifacts to
learn about past cultures.
6.
Astrolabe – an early tool used to tell latitude by
observing and calculating the position of the sun
and other stars. It made exploration easier.
7. Compass – a tool used to tell direction by using
the earth’s magnetic field. It made exploration
easier.
8. Explorers planted flags in the New World to
claim land for their country.
9. Europeans explored so they could spread their
beliefs to other people. They brought
Christianity and the Bible to the Americas.
10. Foods that were new to European, which came
from the Americas, included potatoes, sweet
potatoes, beans, corn, tomatoes, chocolate, and
squash.
11. Northwest Passage – a faster sea route from Europe
to Asia through the Americas
12. European countries like Spain and France wanted
a shorter route to the East Indies so they could
get silks and spices.
13. Examples of motives that lead to exploration are:
wealth, to claim land, and religion (to spread
Christianity)
14. Examples of ways that explorations impacted history
are: new maps, claimed land, spread disease, built
settlements, pushed Native Americans off their land.
15. colony- a settlement ruled by another country, not by
its own people.
16. Christopher Columbus
 Crew almost mutinied because they were afraid of
getting lost at sea.
 Motives were to find a shorter route to Asia to get
spices
 Explored from 1492 – 1506
 The impact he had on history was that he claimed
new lands, improved maps, and mistreated Native
Americans (thought they would make good slaves.)
17. Many American Indians died from contagious diseases
because they were exposed for the first time to some
kinds of sicknesses.
18.
An example of a change that happened because of
the interaction of the Three Worlds:
 New technology such as astrolabes, better maps,
and sturdier ships.
19.
An example of an exploration that occurred because
of the interaction of the Three Worlds:
 Sailing west to find new trade routes to China and
India.
20. An example of an encounter that occurred because
of the interaction of the Three Worlds:
 The meeting of Spanish conquistadors and Aztec
Indians.
21.
Examples of exchanges that took place because of
the interaction of the Three Worlds:
 American Indians trading deer skin for metal
objects.
 Europeans teaching American Indians about
Christianity and Native American’s teaching
Europeans how to make medicines from plants.
22.
The Columbian Exchange
 Many goods were exchanged between the “New
World” and the “Old World”
1. From the New World: potatoes, corn, squash,
cocoa, turkeys, llamas, tobacco
2. From the Old World: wheat, peas, bananas,
horses, cattle, pigs, guns, metal objects, and
diseases
 It changed the lives of Europeans by increasing
population because of new food crops in Europe.
 It changed the lives of American Indians because:
livestock ate the grass that supported animals that
Native Americans hunted and ate other plants
that disrupted farming.
 It changed the lives of Africans because they were
brought to the “New World” to work on sugar
plantations. It was the beginning of slavery.