Money, Markets, & Mercantilism
Mercantilist countries wanted to build up this supply of gold and silver.
What is Bullion?
This religious reformer criticized Catholic leaders and helped begin the Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
European explorers hoped this water route through or around North America would give them a faster route to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This name describes the movement of goods and other things between the Americas and the Eastern Hemisphere following European exploration.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
New Amsterdam once stood on Manhattan Island. Today it is this major American city.
What is New York City?
This Portuguese leader helped exploration by setting up a school to train shipbuilders, sailors, and mapmakers.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
What is the technological advance that made books / knowledge more widely available?
This is a tax placed on imported goods, often making foreign products more expensive.
What is a tariff?
Members of this branch of Christianity did not recognize the pope as their religious leader.
Who are Protestants? / What is Protestantism?
Europeans explored this New York waterway while searching for the Northwest Passage.
What is the Hudson River?
What are 2 things that traveled from Europe, Asia, and Africa to the Americas?
What are (any of the following 2 things) turnips, sugarcane, pears & peaches, olives, cattle, sheep, pigs, horses, citrus fruits, honeybees, bananas, coffee beans, disease, grapes, wheat, rice, barley, oats
What country colonized the North / Northeast part of North America?
What is France?
This explorer and his crew were the 1st peoples to circumnavigate the globe.
What is the technology invented by the Chinese that allowed sailors to determine the direction they were traveling?
What is the Magnetic Compass?
When a country sells more goods (exports) to other countries than it buys from them (imports), it has this.
What is a favorable balance of trade?
This word means a large fleet of warships.
What is an armada?
This explorer's Northwest Passage voyage listed on your worksheet took place in 1497. (Sponsored by Spain)
Who is John Cabot?
Many foods that originated in this region spread to Europe, Africa, and Asia as part of the Columbian Exchange.
What are the Americas?
What country colonized the Southeastern / Southwestern part of North America?
What is Spain?
This explorer made Portugal's sea route to Asia a reality by leading a fleet of four ships to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
What is the technological advance that allowed sailors to find their latitude, based on the stars?
What is the astrolabe?
This word means control over a market, something European governments often gave their merchants.
What is a monopoly?
This allowed England to easily start to colonize their own parts of North America
What is the Spanish Armada's loss in 1588 against England?
This explorer's voyage listed on the worksheet took place in 1535. (Sponsored by France, Joe Burrow wears these type of sunglasses)
Who is Jacques Cartier?
What is known as the most important starchy vegetable that traveled from the Americas to Europe, Asia, and Africa and allowed these continents to dramatically increase their food supply?
What are potatoes?
Unlike many other European colonies, French colonies often began as these, created to protect an important trade.
What are forts protecting the fur trade?
Instead of sailing around Africa, this explorer believed he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What is the technological advance that allowed sailors to better steer their ships?
What is the Stern Rudder?
Under mercantilism, colonies had these two major economic jobs for the home country.
What are providing raw materials and buying finished goods?
Catholic Spain's conflict with Protestant England was an example of this type of competition between European nations.
What is religious rivalry?
This explorer was sent to explore twice, once in 1609 by the Dutch and then again in 1610 by England.
Who is Henry Hudson?
These two military technologies mentioned in the lesson helped European nations expand their empires.
What are guns and powerful ships?
This type of farmer paid rent and also worked for a landowner for a set amount of time each year.
What is a tenant farmer?
What are the 4 things that Spain's Monarchs wanted that caused them to sponsor voyages and exploration parties?
What are land, riches, trade goods, and spreading Christianity?
What is technological advance that allowed sailors to make longer, faster voyages, as well as provided more space for supplies / trade goods being brought back?
What is a Caravel?