Voyages & Explorers
This Portuguese prince sponsored early exploration along the African coast.
Henry the Navigator
This deadly disease devastated Indigenous populations in the Americas.
Smallpox
This empire controlled much of Central and South America.
Spanish Empire
This economic system emphasized accumulating wealth through trade. (Maximize exports and minimize imports)
Mercantilism
This religion spread widely to the Americas through colonization.
Christianity
This explorer’s 1492 voyage connected Europe and the Americas.
Christopher Columbus
These crops from the Americas increased population growth in Europe.
Potatoes and Corn
This small European country dominated the spice trade in the 1600s.
Netherlands
This labor system forced Indigenous people to work for Spanish settlers.
Encomienda system
Name of the brutal six week voyage African slaves would take over the Atlantic
Middle Passage
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe (his crew finished it).
Ferdinand Magellan
This system exchanged plants, animals, people, and diseases across oceans.
Columbian Exchange
This empire focused more on trade than colonization.
The Dutch Empire
This trade route exchanged slaves, sugar, and manufactured goods.
Triangular Trade
This process blended Christianity with other religions in order to make conversion more appealing
Religious Syncretism
This Portuguese explorer reached India by sailing around Africa.
Vasco Da Gama
These animals transformed Native American societies in the Great Plains.
Horses
This empire used the encomienda system in the Americas.
Spain
This labor system replaced Indigenous labor on plantations. (Slaves are now property)
Chattel Slavery
This process blended African, Indigenous, and European cultures.
Cultural Syncretism
This empire dominated Indian Ocean trade before European arrival.
Ottoman Empire
This crop from the Americas became a major export for plantation economies.
Sugar
This Asian power limited European trade to one port at Nagasaki.
Tokugawa Shogunate
This joint-stock company helped the Dutch dominate Asian trade.
The Dutch East India Company (VOC)
This demographic shift resulted from forced migration across the Atlantic.
African diaspora (movement)