Vocabulary
Spain
Portugal
Commodities
Great Exchange
History of Slavery
100
The action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work. Also to use, sell and profit from the use and commodities found in nature.
What is exploit aka exploitation?
100
This was achieved on the Iberian peninsula by Spain by the end of the 15th century, pushing the Moors out.
What was the Reconquista?
100
By 1543, Portuguese explorers had gone as far east as this location of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
What is Japan?
100
The most popular spice that was sought first by the Portuguese in India, this is what da Gama brought back from India to sell for an enormous profit.
What is pepper?
100
Old world or new world - Potatoes, Tomatoes, Corn, Tobacco
What is new world?
100
According to this map, the largest number of people to forcibly brought to the Americas went to this Portuguese colony. 
What is Brazil?
200
The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What is colonialism?
200
A Spanish conqueror in what became their empire, Cortez and Pizarro are two of the most well known.
Who were conquistadors?
200
This became Portugal's largest colonial possession which is located in South America.
What is Brazil?
200
This new world commodity quickly became super popular in Europe after it was brought back by the Spanish. Christopher Columbus called the practice "drank smoke".
What is tobacco?
200
Coffee, tea, cotton, and wheat.
What are Old World crops?
200
The Transatlantic Slave trade captured African people from this coastline.
What is the west coast along the Atlantic Ocean?
300
The type of slavery where the status of an enslaved person whose life and body are claimed as property by another person. They could be bought, sold and their children were automatically enslaved and the property of their enslaver.
What is chattel slavery?
300
This conquistador is credited with conquering the Aztecs.
Who was Cortez?
300
Portugal is located on the eastern seaboard of this peninsula.
What is the Iberian Peninsula?
300
These precious metals were abundant in Mexico and South America and the Spanish conquistadors enslaved the indigenous people and African enslaved people to mine it, which was deadly work.
What are gold and silver?
300
This was the deadliest weapon Europeans brought to the Americas.
What are diseases, specifically, smallpox?
300
True or False - Africans had engaged in the slave trade for centuries before the Transatlantic Trade, mostly to the east to the Arab world.
What is true?
400
The horrific forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
What was the middle passage?
400
This is the term that the Spanish, as well as other Europeans used to describe indigenous peoples who were not Christian and whose cultures were different than their own.
What were heathens?
400
The Portuguese were expelled from this Asian nation/kingdom in 1639 because they were viewed as a threat to their longstanding traditional beliefs and practices, and threatened their authority.
What is Japan?
400
This textile grows well in warmer climates, we wear it most days, and it originated in the Old World and would thrive in the Southern part of what became the United States.
What is cotton?
400
Horses, cattle, pigs, chickens, and goats.
What was the Old World?
400
This the type of slavery that was not permanent, or hereditary, and was generally to pay off a debt or an obligation.
What is debt servitude?
500
A social construct used to group people. It was constructed as a hierarchal human-grouping system, generating classifications to identify, distinguish and marginalize some groups across nations, regions and the world. It divides human populations into groups often based on physical appearance, social factors and cultural backgrounds.
What is race?
500
This Spanish priest's testimony and writings about the horrific abuses of native Americans at the hands of the Spanish in the Caribbean is some of the only evidence that exists that documents this aspect of history.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
500
This agreement required the Portuguese to build churches and spread Catholicism throughout any regions that they controlled.
What was the Padroado?
500
This commodity, native to Central America, was used as currency, and when Europeans sweetened it with sugar and milk it became extremely desired and even more valuable.
What is cacao/chocolate?
500
An estimated 12.5-15 million humans from this continent were unwillingly part of this exchange.
What is Africa?
500
Slavery was a system that was enforced through the threat and extensive use of this.
What is violence?
600
Established in the mid/late 15th century to the early 19th century by the Portuguese and continued by the Spanish, French, English and Dutch the trade of 12-15 million humans from West Africa to the Americans
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
600
He is the conquistador credited with conquering the Aztec empire.
Who was Cortez?
600
Portuguese is a language spoken presently in this many different locations outside of Portugal.
What are 10?
600
Silk, wool, cotton, flax, and linen.
What are textiles?
600
Dogs, rice, beans
What are both the old and new worlds?
600
Under chattel slavery, the legal status of a human depended on the status of her mother. If a child was born to an enslaved mother and and their free, white enslaver, this would be their legal status.
What is enslaved?
700
A forerunner of the modern corporation that was organized for undertakings requiring large amounts of capital. Money was raised by selling shares to investors, who became partners in the venture.
What is a joint-stock company?
700
Even though the King and Queen of Spain were horrified by the accounts of Bartolome de las Casas regarding the treatment of Native people, real protections and change did not occur, because the Spanish colonists that profited threatened this when the King and Queen wanted to pass laws to protect them and abolish their slavery.
Who were the Spanish colonists who were enslavers threatened to revolt?
700
With the exceptions of Portuguese claims in South America, and the southeastern and southwestern portions of Africa, the majority of their trade-posts and claims could be described as this geographically during the 15th-19th centuries.
What are coastal?
700
This was a byproduct of sugar that was incredibly lucrative (it is an alcohol).
What is rum?
700
This is the reason the Great Exchange was positive for population growth in Africa, Europe and Asia.
What are crops like corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and cassava were nutrient and calorie dense and grew easily, making famine less of a recurring issue when these crops were planted and harvested there.
700
According to this map, this location imported the second largest number of enslaved Africans during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
What is the Caribbean aka the West Indies?