Exercises - Effects of the Age of exploration

1. Sort the consequences of the Age of Exploration in the correct categories

(at least two
Consequences for each category)
Political – to do with power or
Economic – to do with money and business
Scientific– to do with discovery, experiment and theories
Social - relating to society and living together in an organized way
Economi Massive wealth accumulated to European colonizers due to trade in
c goods, spices, and precious metals.
Political The work force needed to support the massive plantations in the New
World, led to a 300 year slave trade that had an enormous impact on
Africa. Slaves were also traded between the Old and New World.
Europeans began shipping millions of enslaved Africans to work in the
colonies in the New World.
Social Indigenous people were decimated by Europeans, from a combined
impact of disease (small pox, measles, mumps and typhus), overwork,
and massacres.
Scientific Methods of navigation and mapping improved, switching from
traditional portlan charts to the world’s first nautical maps.
2. Explain why the Arab merchants lost control over trade? (1)
- Arab merchants lost power over trade (lesser usage of the Silk Road, lesser
travelling through Arab and Turkish ports, Centres of trade (cities of northern
Italy) began to decline
3. Why is it assumed that the impact of the age of explorations persists to
this day? (2)
- The impact persists to this day, with many of the world’s former colonies still
considered the “developing” world, while colonizers are the First World
countries, holding a majority of the world’s wealth and annual income.
4. Why is it assumed that the Age of Exploration is responsible for one part
of the world being developed and another still developing?
The period is characterized as a time when Europeans began exploring the
world by sea in search of new trading routes, wealth, and knowledge. The
impact of the Age of Exploration would permanently alter the world and
transform geography into the modern science it is today.