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100

This man thought he had reached islands off of the coast of India.

Who is Christopher Columbus?

100

This term literally means to circle the earth by ship.

What is CIRCUMNAVIGATE?

100

Why were Native Americans not used as slaves in European Colonies?

What are European diseases?

100

North and South America were considered ______.

What is the New World

100

This diagram describes a vocabulary word.

What is MERCANTILISM?

200

A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the globe. 

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

200

A small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th-17th centuries.



What is a CARAVEL?

200

The study and art of map-making

What is cartography?

200

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world.

What is the Colombian Exchange?

200

This was sent from Europe to Africa.

What are guns, cloth, iron, beer?

300

This explorer conquered the Aztec Empire.

Who is Hernan Cortes?

300

These professional soldiers from Spain that conquered native peoples in the Americas.

Who are CONQUISTADORs?

300

The "three Gs"

What are GOD, GLORY, and GOLD?

300

The 3 reasons why Africans were the "logical" answer to the labor shortage in the New World.

What are: 1. Immune to many diseases. 2. Mostly experienced farmers. 3. Unfamiliar with area, so dependent on captors.

300

This primary source describes what?

What is the MIDDLE PASSAGE?

400

This explorer conquered the Incan Empire.

Who is Francisco Pizarro?

400

A group of people in one place who are ruled by a Mother country elsewhere.



What is a colony?

400

The brutal voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

What is the Middle Passage?

400

This lead to the collapse of African states and instability in Africa. 

What is the effect of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?

400

This explorer made the longest voyage.

Who is Magellan?

500

Portuguese explorer, soldier and prince. His school of navigation resulted in a breakthrough for Portuguese navigation.

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

500

An example of this is:

What is COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE?

500

This economic system provided the strong motivation to search for gold and silver; where countries export (sell) more than they import (buy).

What is MERCANTILISM?

500

A trade chain where slaves, gold, guns, and spices were traded among different continents? 

What is TRIANGULAR TRADE?

500

This is the most significant cause of the population decline shown in this graph.

What is DISEASE?

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