Explorers
The Spanish sent this man on a voyage to claim land on the crown's behalf.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was a widespread exchange of exotic and lucrative goods from the New World to the Old World
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The economic theory where countries gain power by building up their wealth.
What is mercantilism?
The brutal voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
Enabled the Ottomans to expand beyond Anatolia.
What is a powerful military and gunpowder weapons?
North and South America were named after this explorer.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
A favorable balance of trade
Planters began importing African slaves when this happened.
What is disease had killed millions of Native Americans?
Founded the Mughal Empire in 1526.
Who is Jahangir?
This man named and claimed Canada for France.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
Onions, wheat, and oranges are from
Old World
Governments provide these to help business people start new industries.
What are subsidies?
Work that most slaves in the Americas were engaged in
What is plantation agriculture?
The strict code for samurai.
What is bushido?
This explorer conquered the Aztec Empire in 1519.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The Spanish system where Native Americans were enslaved.
What was the encomienda system?
These were essential to a mercantilist system.
What are colonies?
Slaves sometimes resisted by participating in this activity.
What is destroying equipment?
The Ming Emperors decided to isolate China in order to eliminate the the influence of these people.
Who are Europeans?
This explorer demonstrated the power and wealth of the Ming Dynasty.
Who is Zheng He?
Caused the destruction of over 90% of the Native American population.
What is European diseases?
An import tax on goods.
What is a tariff?
As a result of the slave trade this occurred in Africa.
What is societal upheaval?
This dynasty ruled Korea from the late 14th century until the early 20th century.
Who are the Choson?