Exploration
Slavery
Trade (hard)
Vocab
Odds & Ends
100
China's Indian Ocean expeditions occurred during this dynasty.
What is the Ming?
100
On most Caribbean islands, this percentage of the inhabitants or more were slaves.
What is 90%?
100
This was an association of trading cities in northern Europe.
What is the Hanseatic League?
100
The term for whites born in America to European parents.
What are creoles?
100
Catholic clergy in South America first attempted to do this in order to covert the natives to Catholicism.
What is convert the elites? (not forced conversion)
200
He was the commander of China's Indian Ocean expeditions.
Who is Zheng He?
200
This was the term for the privileged male slave whose job was the ensure the other slaves worked.
What is the driver?
200
These two Italian cities dominated trade in Europe in the 13th century.
What are Genoa and Venice?
200
The term for the legal grant of freedom by an owner.
What is manumission?
200
He was the most influential defender of Amerindians in the New World in the early colonial period.
Who was Bartolome' de las Casas?
300
In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl said the Kon Tiki westward from Peru to this island.
What is Easter Island?
300
This percentage of slaves in the Caribbean were house servants.
What is 2 or 3%?
300
In the 15th century, this Italian city dominated all Mediterranean trade.
What is Florence?
300
What were slaves runaways in the Caribbean called?
What are maroons?
300
This fraction of slaves died during seasoning.
What is 1/3?
400
Christopher Columbus came from this Italian city.
What is Genoa?
400
The strongest slaves in the Caribbean colonies made up this "gang."
What is the "great gang?"
400
The Champagne region of France developed this economic activity during the late Middle Ages.
What are fairs?
400
An association of craft specialists that regulate the business practices of its members and the price they can charge.
What is a guild?
400
He led an Amerindian uprising in 1780 in Peru.
Who was Tupac Amaru II?
500
The Portuguese designed these ships of exploration.
What are caravels?
500
Elderly women and children made up this "gang" in the Caribbean colonies.
What is the "grass gang?"
500
Individuals seeking returns higher than the low rate of interest paid by banks could purchase slaves in these.
What are joint-stock companies?
500
The Hausa exported this caffeine rich product to the north.
What is kola nut?
500
State the two ways sugar plantations damaged the environment.
What are soil exhaustion and deforestation?
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