Technological Innovations
Adopting this technology helped Europeans expand their maritime empires. It was developed in China and used for determining direction
What is the compass?
A desire to have direct trade with this area of spices, silk, porcelain, and tea was a major motivation for European maritime expansion starting in the 15th century
What is Asia?
It was a devastating transfer in the Columbian Exchange that resulted in the historical event known as the Great Dying.
What is Disease?
The Portuguese established this through force to exercise control over access to heavily trafficked maritime routes in Africa and Asia.
What is the Portuguese Trading Post Empire?
This religion was practiced by the British colonists, and because it encouraged reading the bible, British colonies had higher literacy rates.
What is Protestantism?
They were people born from a European and Indigenous couple. They held some economic & political power but less than Peninsulares & Creoles.
Who are Mestizos?
It marked the 1400s as the beginning of a new period of world history by incorporating the Americas into a broader global network of exchange.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Adopting this technology helped Europeans expand their maritime empires. Primarily developed by Muslims, diagrams of stars & constellations that helped sailors know where they were.
What are Astronomical Charts?
A desire to have direct trade with this area of ivory, gold, and slaves was a major motivation for European maritime expansion starting in the 15th Century
What is Africa?
A 1500s cash crop grown on plantations primarily in the Caribbean and Brazil. It increased demand for labor, prompting the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the majority of which were males. It was a major commodity in the Atlantic trade system/Columbian Exchange.
What is sugar?
This is the country where the British East India Company established trading posts through negotiating treaties with local rulers.
What is India?
This decision by the Chinese government in the 1570s caused the value of silver around the world to skyrocket.
What is the Chinese silver tax?
This is a social classification system implemented by the Spanish where individuals were categorized based on their racial and ethnic ancestry, it fueled the formation of new identities and the restructuring of social hierarchies.
What is Casta?
She was an Aztec woman sold as a slave to Cortez and became his interpreter, helping him negotiate with local rulers in Meso-America.
Who is Dona Marina?
Acquiring knowledge of these helped Europeans expand their maritime empires. They are alternating wind currents in the Indian Ocean that blew predictably northeast during the summer months and southwest during the winter.
What are Monsoons?
They were the first to engage in voyages across the Atlantic and inspired other European countries to become greatly interested in transoceanic exploration.
Who are the Spanish?
The introduction of these in the Columbian Exchange created ranching communities in the Americas
What are Domesticated Animals?
They left Europe to escape European traditions rather than re-create them in the Americas.
Who were British colonist?
This is who held the power in Japan during this time period.
What is the Shogun?
The association between this and slavery distinguished the Atlantic slave trade from past instances of slavery in World History.
What is race?
This was the most successful indigenous uprising against Spanish colonizers in the 17th century.
What are the Pueblo Revolts?
Adopting this technology helped Europeans expand their maritime empires. Developed by either Arabs or Greeks, it determines latitude and longitude.
What is an Astrolabe?
This financed the demand for Asian commodities. The relationship between the two best characterizes world trade in the period 1450-1750
What is New World Silver?
A 1700s cash crop grown primarily in British North America. It increased demand for labor, resulting in an increase in importation of mostly male slaves from Africa.
What is Tobacco?
This country was conquered and colonized by the Dutch East India Company.
What is Indonesia?
The location of the only Spanish colony in Asia. Established in the 16th century.
What are the Philippines?
It refers to the global dispersal of people of African descent, carrying with them their cultural traits. As a result they affected religion, farming techniques, and music in the Americas.
What is the African Diaspora?
A triangular-shaped sail developed by Arabs that could take wind on either side
What is a Lateen Sail?
A type of ship invented by Europeans that helped them expand their maritime empires (3 possibilities)
Caravel (Portugal)
Carrack (Portugal)
Fluyt (Dutch)
Because it was the only payment accepted for Asian goods such as spices and textiles
Why was there an intense desire for silver?
These are the most prominent foods introduced to the Old World through the Columbian exchange and, as rich sources of carbohydrates, became staples in the European diet and helped increase population.
What are Corn and Potatoes?
These FOUR countries distinguished themselves from other empires by initiating maritime empires. They were the first to expand to the New World because they were on the Atlantic Coast and closer to the Americas.
What are Portugal, France, Spain, and Britain?
This country expelled all Europeans except the Dutch, who were only allowed to trade at a single site.
What is Japan?
An African kingdom that had heavy involvement in the slave trade and depended on revenues from the slave trade.
What is the Kingdom of Dahomey?
This region of the world was LEAST affected by the expansion of European trade networks from 1450-1750 CE
What is Oceania?