Chapter 20
World History
Chapter 20.1
Question:
Summarize the types of voyages of Columbus and his contemporaries took during there time?
Answer:
Columbus set off on August 3, 1492 to hope to find new shores he could claim. The trip was a long and painful journey trying to find this place people called the new world. While Columbus sailed out he had 3 ships that also left with him on August 3rd the Nina, Pinta and the Santa Maria. The first encounters he had met the native people of Americas instead on sailing to East India his calculations were off. The land Columbus did find he conquered it for Spain and named it San Salvador in this process Columbus and the other explorers were mostly after to find Gold. In this process Columbus made many voyages afterwards and became a empire builder for Spain.
Chapter 20.2
Question:
Assess the completing claims in North America?
Answer:
They had many different ones having different established colonies with the French, English and Dutch. They had men that tried to travel the world and find a way to travel through the Pacific ocean. They started to have different colonies and they started to create new colonies.
Chapter 20.3
Question:
Describe the triangular trade?
Answer:
They started to transport different goods across the west coast of Africa and they had captured Africans for goods. They had merchants carried rum and other things. They brought sugar, coffee and tobacco to the West Indies. They had many things from English Colonies to Africa.