End of Middle Ages — event?
Fall of Constantinople in 1453
End of Middle Ages — significance?
Transition to modern era, trade disruption
Discovery of New World — date?
1492, Columbus's voyage
Columbus — landing site?
San Salvador in the Caribbean
European exploration — motives?
Economic, political, religious expansion
Vasco da Gama — route?
Sea route to India via Cape of Good Hope
Magellan — achievement?
First circumnavigation of the Earth
Hernán Cortés — conquest?
Aztec Empire in Mexico
Transatlantic trade — crops?
Tobacco, cotton, sugar cane
Triangular trade — system?
Europe, Africa, Americas exchange goods and slaves
Rise of slavery — cause?
Need for cheap labor in colonies
Humanist thinkers — Erasmus?
Promoted tolerance, education, critical thinking
Utopia — author?
Thomas More, critique of European society
Printing press — inventor?
Johannes Gutenberg, mid-15th century
Printing — impact?
Spread of ideas, Renaissance culture
Answer 8 questions on European Exploration and Global Expansion.
1. What is considered a key event marking the end of the Middle Ages?
2. On what date did Christopher Columbus land on San Salvador, marking the European discovery of the Americas?
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