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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

A. Zheng HeB. James CookC. Samuel de ChamplainD. Christopher ColumbusE. Vasco da GamaF. Ferdinand MagellanG. Prince Henry

The Columbian Exchange

A. It was a global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas

1. Corn and potatoes came to Europe, Asia, Africa2. Bananas, black-eyed peas, yams came to Americas3. Cattle, pigs, horses came to Americas4. 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

Triangular Trade• Trade route in 1500s-1800s between:• Europe• Africa• Americas

• To obtain goods not from their homeland

What went where?

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

• 300-400 packed in a tiny area

• 1-6 months

• Disease was prevalent

• Many died along the way

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