Columbian Exchange
Exploration and Empires
Colonial Societies
Atlantic Slave Trade and Resistance
Resistance and Conflict
Global Trade and Empires
100

This term describes the transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between hemispheres.

Columbian Exchange

100

These two countries were granted rights to divide newly discovered lands in 1494.

Spain and Portugal

100

This system in Spanish colonies resembled feudal labor structures.

Encomienda System

100

This trade network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Triangular Trade

100

This Native American revolt temporarily expelled the Spanish in 1680.

Pueblo Revolt

100

This ocean remained a major center of trade before and after European arrival.

Indian Ocean

200

This New World crop had the greatest impact on European population growth.

Potato

200

The main goal of Portuguese exploration was to reach this market.

Asian Spice Trade

200

This English colony was founded for religious freedom.

Plymouth

200

These communities were formed by escaped enslaved people.

Maroon Communities

200

This war resulted in a devastating loss for Native Americans in New England.

King Philip's War (Metacom's War)

200

This policy in Japan limited foreign influence.

Sakoku 

300

This was the most devastating disease brought to the Americas.

Smallpox

300

This joint-stock company dominated Dutch trade in Asia.

Dutch East India Company (VOC)

300

The French economy in North America relied heavily on this trade.

The Fur Trade

300

This African ruler resisted Portuguese control in Angola.

Queen Nzinga

300

This Russian rebellion showed resistance by serfs and Cossacks.

Pugachev Rebellion

300

This African kingdom grew powerful through gold and slave trade.

Asante Kingdom

400

This animal revolutionized mobility and warfare for many Indigenous groups.

Horse

400

This nation focused heavily on plantation agriculture in Brazil.

Portugal

400

This social system in Spanish America created a hierarchy based on ancestry.

The Casta System

400

This 1739 rebellion occurred in South Carolina.

Stono Rebellion

400

This French conflict challenged absolutist monarchy.

The Fronde

400

This system in the Ottoman Empire allowed religious groups self-governance.

Millet System

500

This was a major demographic effect of the Columbian Exchange on Native populations.

Population Decline due to Disease

500

This factor most contributed to the decline of the Portuguese trading empire.

Competition from the Dutch and English

500

This broader process is shown by adapting the Incan mit’a into the encomienda system.

Adaptation of Indigenous Labor for Colonial Exploitation

500

This revolution was the first successful slave revolt creating a nation.

Haitian Revolution

500

This English conflict represents internal resistance to monarchy.

English Civil War

500

This Ottoman system exchanged land for military service.

Timar System

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