Egotistical Explorers
Italian guy who "discovered America" and committed Taíno genocide
Who was Christopher Columbus?
African ruler in Kongo who wanted to create a Christian state
Who was Alfonso I?
A type of business organization wherein the risk and cost of doing business is mitigated through the sale of shares
What was a joint-stock company?
Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights, and the Roman Republic influenced this
What is Plymouth's self government?
First person to sail around the world
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
After being enslaved in the Caribbean, he became an abolitionist who wrote a famous autobiography
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
This economic system's goal was to push for more exports than imports
What was mercantilism?
The domesticated animal that made travel for the Europeans much easier
What are horses?
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Who was Cortés?
Africa is not this, it is a continent
What is a country?
Spanish labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples
What was the economedia system?
The biggest threat to Native Americans after contact with Europeans
What was germs/disease?
Spanish conquistador who fought the Incas
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The one route of the Triangle Trade that involved forcibly moving Africans to the New World
What was the Middle Passage?
Prized possession in Brazil that the Portuguese fought for
What was Brazilwood?
Only domesticated animals in the New World
What were llamas and alpacas?
Dutch settlers along the southern tip of Africa
Who were the Boers?
Number of enslaved people involved in the African slave trade
What was 11-12 million people?
A free market system that controls prices with supply and demand
What is capitalism?
Agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make profit
What were cash crops?