Destruction of Inca and Aztec
What was the name of the disease that made everyone sick?
Small pox
What is Imperalism?
A policy of extending a country's power and influence through colonization, military force, or other means.
The sailors loaded their ships with raw material from the Americas to take back to where?
Europe
What does exploration mean?
The act of traveling through an unfamiliar area to learn about it
How was Inca defeted?
A Spanish explorer came and conquered their land
European colonies' government structures were like who?
Europe
The Middle Passage is...
What is the Middle Portion of the Triangle Trade when enslaved Africans were forced on ships heading to the New World?
Columbus thought he could reach Asia by sailing west across the _______ ocean.
Atlantic
What year was Aztec taken down?
Europeans forced indeginous people to learn their what to do what?
Learn their languages in order to trade with them.
Africans were targeted for slavery because.... (2 reasons)
African were already exposed to the diseases that wiped out the Native Americans and slavery was already seen in Africa through the spread of Islam.
Columbus voyages opened up the Americas to the ________ and ________.
Europeans and colonization
The Spanish had...
strong weapons and help by enemies
Europeans bought their ______ and ______ when they arrived in the Americas.
Tools and technology.
About __________% of slaves did not survive the Middle Passage and about ____________ million slaves were sent to the New World by the Middle Passage.
20% and 15-20 million
_____ and _____ were competing to find an ocean trade route,
Portugal and Spain.
What is Tenochtitlan?
This was the Aztec capital city.
European people believed it was their job to what?
Convert indeginous people to Christianity.
The Atlantic Slave Trade's effects were... (2 effects)
the loss of many cultures and generations in the continent of Africa and Plantations in the Americas made more money.
Christopher Columbus set sail across the Atlantic on....
August 3, 1492