Technology and Culture
Reason why the Europeans STARTED exploring?
For easier access to spices
The "New World" was named after him
Amerigo Vespucci
Hernan Cotes
Often described as a shape, Trade between the old and the new worlds resembled it
Triangle
The term used by Europeans to describe the Americas after their discovery by explorers.
What is the New World
Kingdom that first Discovered the New World?
Cash Crop that drove most of the Slave Trade
Sugar
Francisco Pizzaro
Country where most of the slaves were shipped from Africa
Brazil
The movement of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and the New World after 1492.
European Invention that made it easier to navigate the oceans
What is the Compass
Their Diets
Discovered the Grand Canyon
Francisco de Coronado
Staple food that changed European diets forever
Potatoes/Tomatoes
Mercantilism
An economic system where countries tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and creating colonies for raw materials.
Discovered Canada for the French
Jaques Cartier
Colonies were established by a mother country for this purpose
Bringing Raw Materials, Gold, and other goods to the home country
Encomienda
A Spanish system that gave colonists the right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans living on the land.
God, Glory, Gold
Length of time that it took to reach the Americas
6-7 weeks
Told the Spanish King and Queen: "We'd be Idiots not to enslave them" (The Natives)
Christopher Columbus
The Columbian Exchange
The movement of plants, animals, people, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and the New World after 1492.