Europe Finally Leaves the Group Chat
This country sponsored early exploration along the African coast.
What is Portugal?
This term refers to the exchange of goods, people, and diseases between hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This labor system forced Indigenous people to work for Spanish colonists.
What is encomienda?
This precious metal was heavily mined in the Americas.
What is silver?
This economic system focused on accumulating wealth through trade.
What is mercantilism?
This explorer reached the Americas in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This disease devastated Indigenous populations in the Americas.
What is smallpox?
This system required Indigenous labor in mines and agriculture.
What is mita?
This Spanish colony was a major source of silver.
What is Potosi?
These joint-stock companies funded overseas trade ventures.
What are trading companies (like the Dutch or British East India Companies)?
This technology improved navigation at sea.
What is the compass?
This American crop became a staple in Europe and Africa.
What is maize/corn? Also acceptable: potatoes
This labor system used enslaved Africans on plantations.
What is chattel slavery?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!! This system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas in trade.
What is the triangular trade?
This empire dominated trade in the Indian Ocean before Europeans.
What is the Ottoman Empire? (acceptable: other regional powers depending on class emphasis)
This route allowed ships to reach Asia by sailing around Africa.
What is the Cape of Good Hope route?
This animal, brought by Europeans, transformed transportation in the Americas.
What is the horse?
This trade route forcibly transported Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This cash crop drove plantation economies in the Caribbean.
What is sugar?
This global network connected Afro-Eurasia and the Americas.
What is global trade network (or transoceanic trade)?
This explorer completed the first circumnavigation of the globe (his crew did, at least).
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This was the number one effect of the Columbian Exchange on the indigenous peoples of the Americas.
What is massive population decline?
This term refers to the large-scale movement of enslaved Africans.
What is the atlantic slave trade?
This Asian country received large amounts of silver in exchange for goods.
What is China?
This was the MOST significant long-term impact of transoceanic exploration on the world.
What is globalization (or increased global connections/exchange)?