Answers to study guide Unit 3
1. To accumulate wealth
2. Portugal
3. Spain
4. Caravel
5. 80-90%
6. Far east, Asia. Had to buy from Muslims
7. Silk Road
8. Amerigo Vespuchi
9. Caribbean,
10. 10 million or 1/3, 33%
11. 30 million
12. Citrus, beef, pork, chicken, wheat, rice
13. Potatoes
14. 3 leg-a.manufactured goods to Africa for
slaves, b. slaves harvest raw products to send
to Europe, c. Europe makes manufactured
goods from raw.
15. The introduction of food items and diseases
between Europe and Americas
16. Began a navigation school in Portugal that
promoted exploration particularly down coast
of Africa, to aid with all water route to Asia
17. Natives weak from war and disease, could
run easily , did not know large scale farm
techniques of foods brought to New World.
Slaves could not easigly run, knew farming,
resistant to disease, used to climate
18. God, Gold, and Glory
19. With the knowledge gained by reading
ancient Greek Text, spurred interest in
exploring.
20. Astrolab
21. To find all water route to Asia
22. Columbus
23. Pizarro
24. Cortes
25. Better weapons-gun, canons, gun powder,
armor
26. Work in the mines for gold
27. System set up by Spain to enslave natives
and save their souls
28. Magellan
29. Age of Discovery
30. Three zones- NE- Puritan, MC-mixed with
Quaker, Catholic, Jew, and SC- Church of
England
In Europe-mainly Catholic with some
Protestants
31. Wood, cod, but no gold.
32. Roanoke. NC
33. Jamestown
34. John Smith
35. At first- to seek gold, then to escape
religious reasons
36. Portugal
37. Tobacco
38. A crop raised just to make money, usually
for a mother country
39. The part of the slave trade from Africa to
the new world
40. Africans
41. Spain, Portugal, England, North America
42. Gave them a better diet and for some, more
wealth. Also raised inflation rates to so many
goods
43. The rise in prices above fair market value,
usually lack of income increase
44. An economic system in which a controlling
country uses the resources of another (colony)
to increase wealth, iusually in the form or gold
or silver
45. Killed many of them, destroyed empires,
caused parents to harm children so that would
not have to work in mines, changed culture,
religion, ways of farming, introduced new food
to diets, and diseases.
46. Treaty of Tordesillas
47. A country that controls a colony and
territory intrade
48. To take care of the growing tobacco trade
49. Poor, packed tightly, in chains, little air,
diseases,
50. Tight-more money, lose-less money, but
fewer deaths than tight
51. Accustomed to type of climate, immune to
diseaases of that latitude
Did not know terrain of new world, knew
farming
52. Poorly. Polluted the river, drank and ate
from the river, built a fort, did not learn how to
grow crops, did not build relationship with
natives
53. Could not be seen by passing Spanish ships,
could be protected from natives,
54. Religious concerns, wanted Church of
England to be less Catholic
55. Natives attacked, Colonists would
sometimes take food from natives, attack
natives
56. Puritans saw sin in everything-singing,
dancing, cards, showing emotion,
57. 13
58. Increased
59. Agriculture and the work of slaves
60. England
61. Church of England
62. Religious dissenters-pushed out of their
homeland
63. Shipping. Paper, some farming
64. Quaker. Catholic, Jew
65. England
66. Puritans
67. Practice religion
68. Fishing, shipping
69. European countries tried to increase their
wealth throught trade, accumulation of gold
and silver, so European countries competed for
claims in the new world
70. Diseased brought from old to new nearly
wiped out natives; Becausee Africans were
immune to equatorial diseases, it made it easy
for Europe to choose Africans as workers.
71. Those of the same faith can feel as thought
they belong with someone. The Catholics were
united in desire to spread Catholic faith to the
point of forcing natives and others to convert.
Cortes used local tribes to fight against the
Aztec.