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Study Guide Age of Exploration

Notes Needed- Notes should be organized in this order in your 3 ring binder
1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) 7) 8) 9) Age of Exploration Introduction God, Gold, or Glory Worksheet (not needed to study) HW For God, Gold, and Glory Explorer Chart (only needed to answer focus question 3 & I will give you a wordbank of explorer names) Columbian Exchange Notes Mercantilism Notes Slavery in Africa Notes Slavery in the New World notes Encomienda Notes

Relevant textbook sections 95-101; 119-125; 132-136; 137-141 Age of ExplorationPrester JohnPrince Henry the Navigator ColumbusTreaty of TordesillasCaravelAstrolabeCompassColumbian ExchangeMercantilism Old World New WorldMother CountryColonyTriangular TradeMiddle PassageEncomienda-

PeninsularesCreolesMestizosMulattoes Slaves-

Focus Question 1: What were the 3 motivating factors that encouraged Europeans to explore in the 1400s, and give examples of each. Focus Question 2: How did technology from other cultures help Europeans to explore in the 1400s? Tip: Describe both the invention AND where it came from.
Focus Question 3: How should explorers be viewed by historians (as heroes, villains, working men, or something else)? Focus Question 4: How did the Columbian Exchange impact the world? Focus Question 5: How did the encomienda system in the Spanish colonies change the world? Focus Question 6: Did the Age of Exploration improve or harm the world? DIAGRAMS FOR THE TEST Label the continents and the ocean, the type of good exchanged between the continents, and an example of that good.