Exploration & Trade
1450-1750
1450-1750
Among the most important goods from Asia that motivated Europeans to find new trade routes there were these trade items produced primarily in the islands of Southeast Asia.
What are spices
This European country was the first to explore and open up trade routes along the African coast and the Indian Ocean.
What is Portugal.
Measuring wealth in terms of precious metals, this economic policy which aimed to limit imports while expanding exports was practiced by every major European power from 1450-1750.
What is mercantilism
The period known as the Columbian Exchange began after Christopher Columbus's discovery of this part of the world.
What are the Americas or the Western Hemisphere.
After successfully taking control from the French and local rulers, Britain established and ruled over this important colony in South Asia during 1450-1750.
What is India
The magnetic compass from China and the astrolabe from the Middle East are examples of navigation technologies spreading from Asia to this continent during 1450-1750?
What is Europe.
After conquests such as Cortes over the Aztecs in Mexico and Pizarro over the Inca in Peru, this European country colonized and ruled over nearly all of Latin America for centuries.
What is Spain
Given charters by their governments to operate with a total monopoly on regional trade like the Royal African Company in West Africa, and the Dutch East India Company in Asia, these businesses were funded by investors who bought shares of ownership.
What are joint-stock companies or joint-stock ownership companies.
This main cause led to the Columbian Exchange.
What is the increasing contact, connection, and/or interaction between [people in] the Old World and the New World (Eastern & Western Hemispheres)
Unspun cotton from India, unwoven silk from China, timber and fur from North America, and sugarcane from Brazil and the Caribbean are examples of this type of goods being traded in the emerging global economies from 1450-1750?
What are raw materials, or un-manufactured goods or raw goods
New, improved designs like the Portuguese caravel, the Dutch fluyt, and the use of the lateen sail were examples of innovations in this field of maritime technology?
What are ships, boats, vessels, or shipbuilding
Seeking a northern trade route to Asia through North America, this European state colonized and ruled much of North America after seizing control of it from the French after defeating them in the Seven Years War.
What is England or Britain/Great Britain
Used as the preferred payment for global trade in goods, the majority of this currency flowed from rich sources like Potosi in the Americas to China
What is silver
These three were the primary things exchanged between the Eastern and Western Hemisphere from 1450-1750.
What were plants, animals, and diseases.
The newly developed agricultural economies in the American colonies, relied heavily on these types of systems, such as the encomienda and hacienda systems.
What are labor systems
After being held by the Portuguese for over 100 years, this rich trade port and strategic waterway in Southeast Asia was seized and controlled by the Dutch in 1641 after a five-month battle.
What is Malacca, the port of Malacca, or the Strait of Malacca
Due to limited resources and manpower, these two European countries mainly focused on creating trading post empires along known trade routes instead of establishing and maintaining large colonies and territories.
What is Portugal and the Netherlands, or who are the Portuguese and the Dutch
After it was discovered and colonized by the Spanish following Magellan's circumnavigation of the world in 1522, this colony became a major center of trade in East Asia.
What are the Philippines.
Among the deadliest introduced into the New World, this disease killed close to 90% of the population in some areas of Central and South America.
What is smallpox
Some Asian states, like this regime in Japan, sought to limit the disruptive economic and cultural effects of European-dominated long-distance trade by adopting restrictive or isolationist trade policies.
What is the Tokugawa Shogunate or Tokugawa government
Improvements or advancements in areas such as these three technological fields/areas promoted growth of maritime exploration and trade from 1450-1750.
What were shipbuilding/ship design, navigation technologies, cartography/map-making
Instead being funding by businesses with private, individual investors, exploration and trade in these two European nations was sponsored and controlled by their ruling monarchies or governments.
What is Spain and Portugal
In this commercial network between Europe, Africa, and the Americas, manufactured goods like firearms shipped from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and raw materials from the Americas back to Europe.
What is the triangular trade (network) or the Trans-Atlantic trade
These three effects resulted from the diversity of new foods adopted into people's diets after the Columbian Exchange.
What is population growth, increased/better health, and/or longer lifespans
Used for the intense, difficult labor on sugarcane plantations, the vast majority of slaves brought from West Africa were transported to these two locations in the Americas.
What are Brazil and the Caribbean/Caribbean Sea/Caribbean Islands