Spanish Colonies
The main good, found in mines, that ran the economy in the Spanish American colonies.
What is silver?
A sect of Christianity and popular belief system of the Portuguese and Spanish settlers.
What is Catholicism?
American holiday that originated when English settlers came to the New World.
What is Thanksgiving?
This drink was traded to natives and addiction began among the tribes.
What is alcohol?
The Ottoman Empire ended the Byzantine Empire with the conquest of this freshly named city that has a popular They Might Be Giants song about it.
What is Istanbul?
The main population of people that Spain used for slave labor.
What are Amerindians?
The main good produced in Portuguese colonies by enslaved Africans.
What is sugarcane?
The religious group that founded the colony of Pennsylvania.
What are Quakers?
The French colonies had a harsh environment of harsh winters and this bug during the warm months.
The name of Ottoman infantry soldiers that were previously enslaved Christian soldiers.
What are janaissaries?
An institution by law in Spain that persecuted religious minorities and delayed their progress in exploration.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
A piece of technology used in the Portuguese and Spanish colonies that could help to spread ideas.
What is the printing press?
Established by a company in search of mineral wealth, this was the first English colony.
What is Virginia?
This type of religious person attempted to convert the natives to Christianity in the French colonies.
What is a missionary?
The ruler of the Mughal Empire that greatly promoted social harmony.
Who is Akbar?
Smelting caused this environmental problem in the region.
What is deforestation?
The name for a ruler of a colony that governed overseas for the royalty of their home country.
What is a viceroy?
What is Protestant Christianity?
The name for the children of coureurs, French men that started families with Amerindian women.
What are metis?
The sect of Islam worshipped by the Safavid Empire.
What is Shia Islam?
The two main labor systems that divided slaves between settlers and gave them specific jobs.
What are encomienda and mita?
The country that the Portuguese king was focused on, rather than establishing a government in the New World.
What is India?
The trade of a good often sold in English colonies that both natives and settlers depended on.
A French promoter and navigator during this time period that only found a foolish mineral.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
The name for a king that ruled over this poor, backward, and landlocked gunpowder empire.
What is a tsar/czar?