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| Question | Answer |
| Age of Discovery: | 1450-1650 |
| Motives for Exploration: | The 3 G's-"God, Glory, or Gold" |
| . Prince Henry the Navigator | of Portugal made yearly trips to West Africa, sends gold back to Portugal; he paid for other voyages of exploration |
| Christopher Columbus | sails west to find a new sea route to Asia. Columbus believes he is the West Indies Discovers the New World. |
| Effects of his discovery | native population wiped out by European diseases like smallpox causes the importation of slaves from Africa. |
| Ferdinand Magellan: | 1st explorer to "circumnavigate" (sail around) the world |
| Columbian Exchange | exchange of plants & diseases between the Americas and Europe result of European exploration of the New World |
| The Middle Passage | (Part of the triangular slave trade) its the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas made by slave ships. Many Africans died during the voyage |
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