Exploration

Columbian Exchange

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• meeting of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans beginning in the late 1400s.

• Distance north or south of the equator

• Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees

Great Convergence

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• meeting of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans beginning in the late 1400s.

• one of the seven large landmasses on the earth

• a waterway through or around North America

Latitude

• 0 degrees latitude, divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

• Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian. Lines run vertical.

• 0 degrees longitude, divides the earth in Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• Distance north or south of the equator. Lines run horizontal.

Longitude

• 0 degrees latitude, divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

• Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian. Lines run vertical.

• 0 degrees longitude, divides the earth in Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• Distance north or south of the equator. Lines run horizontal.

Equator

• 0 degrees latitude, divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

• Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian. Lines run vertical.

• 0 degrees longitude, divides the earth in Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• Distance north or south of the equator. Lines run horizontal.

Prime Meridian

• 0 degrees latitude, divides the earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.

• Distance east or west of the Prime Meridian. Lines run vertical.

• 0 degrees longitude, divides the earth in Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• Distance north or south of the equator. Lines run horizontal.

3 G's of Exploration

• He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

• God, Gold, Glory

• The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• a map that shows land and water features

Christopher Columbus

• He mistakenly discovered the Americas in 1492 while searching for a faster route to India.

• Distance north or south of the equator. Lines run horizontal.

• meeting of Europeans, Africans, and Native Americans beginning in the late 1400s.

• The body of water between North/South America and Europe/Africa.

continent

• The body of water between North/South America and Europe/Africa.

• a map that shows land and water features

• 0 degrees longitude, divides the earth in Eastern and Western Hemispheres

• one of the seven large landmasses on the earth

Atlantic Ocean

• one of the seven large landmasses on the earth

• The body of water between North/South America and Europe/Africa.

• Ocean on the West Coast of the United States

• A map that shows man-made features such as boundaries, countries, and cities.