4.1-4.2 Exploration - Causes and Events
4.3 Columbian Exchange
4.4: Maritime Empires Established
4.5 Maritime Empires Maintained and Developed
4.6 Internal and External Challenges to State Power
4.7 Changing Social Hierarchies
100
Who sponsored Christopher Columbus' journey?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain
100
What was the name given to the trip from Africa to the New World?
The Middle Passage
100
What was the name of the far-reaching war between France and England over land in India, North America and other places in the mid-1700s? *Hint, it has 2 names.
French and Indian War or Seven Years War
100
The process of a ship carrying European manufactured goods to Africa, where they traded them for slaves, which then were transported to America to work to grow raw materials which were then sent to Europe for manufacturing into goods and it would start all over again.
What was the Triangle Trade
100
King Philip's War was in part a result of English colonists using underhanded tactics in their continuing pressure to control Native American lands in the 16th and 17th centuries.
What was the Metacom's War?
100
What famous French King wanted to keep power from the common people and the nobility?
King Louis XIV
200
What were French, English, and Dutch explorers looking for in the 1500's and 1600's? Hint* Not a material thing*
The Northwest Passage
200
Three of the four main maritime empires from 1450-1750.
Spain, Portugal, The Dutch(Netherlands or Holland) and Great Britain
200
The type of slavery where a person is considered property, has no rights and was the type of slavery common to the Americas.
What is chattel slavery?
200
The reason why the women in Africa rose to more prominence during this period.
What was the transport of male Africans in the Slave Trade?
200
Neighboring nomadic descendants of the Mongols, this warrior tribe lived independent of the state of Russia but were hired from time to time to fight off Swedish, Tartar, and Ottoman forces for Mother Russia.
Who were the Cossacks?
200
The casta you would belong in if your mother was an Amerindian and your father was Spanish.
What is a Mestizo?
300
Three innovations/inventions new to Europe that allowed for European ships to venture further and lead to the Age of Exploration for Europe.
What are Lateen Sails, astrolabe, compass, wind pattern charts, understanding of tides, stern rudder, astronomical charts, etc
300
The term for the dispersion of Africans out of Africa.
What is the African Diaspora?
300
This form of labor taxation was adopted by the Spanish from the Inca to obtain coerced labor to work their mines.
What was the mit'a system?
300
People who traded around 7 years of service to get transport to the Americas.
Who were indentured servants?
300
The name for people in the Caribbean who escaped slavery and lived in hidden communities.
Who were the Maroons?
300
Two of the syncretic religions formed in the Caribbean that were a combination of Christian ideas and African Spiritualism.
What is Vodun (Voodoo) or Santeria or Candomble?
400
A trade rivalry between the Muslim traders from the Arab world and the European Christian traders over the Indian Ocean Trade and trade settlements
What was the Omani-European Rivalry?
400
Two staple crops new to Europe and Africa from the Americas that increased lifespan and populations.
corn, potatoes
400
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.
What is mercantalism?
400
One of the main reasons for the fall of Spain to English dominance.
What was inflation and their failure to adjust taxes.
400
The name of the bloodless revolution that came about in England when William and Mary were put on the throne after the removal of James II.
What was the Glorious Revolution?
400
Those who plied the seas near North Africa that pirated European ships during this period.
Who were the Barbary Pirates?
500
The order of the four main states that dominated the Indian-Ocean sea trade. ex. France, Qing, Russia, United States (this example is very wrong!)
What was Islamic merchants, Portuguese, Dutch, British
500
The three things that gave Europeans the great advantage over the indigenous societies they conquered according to an important book by Jared Diamond. hint: G____, G______ and S______
What are Guns, Germs and Steel
500
The system where indigenous people were forced to work the land for the Spanish landholders in exchange for food and shelter.
What was the Encomienda System?
500
One of two main empires that grew in power in Africa due to the Slave trade.
What was the Ashanti Empire or the Doheny Empire?
500
The company that dominated the spice trade in the east after the Portuguese.
What was the Dutch East India Company?
500
The name for the required hair-do that subjugated Han men to the Qing rulers.
What was the queue?