Identify the motives for European exploration.
God/Gold/Glory
The process of a ship carrying European manufactured goods to Africa, where they traded them for slaves, which then were transported to America to work to grow raw materials which were then sent to Europe for manufacturing into goods and it would start all over again.
What was the Triangle Trade
The Islamic empire that exists in the Middle East
What is Ottoman Empire?
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.
What is mercantalism?
The Ottoman Empire was mainly under this sect of the Muslim Faith.
What is The Sunni Sect?
The conqueror of the Aztec Empire
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The casta you would belong in if your mother was an Amerindian and your father was Spanish.
What is a Mestizo?
The Islamic empire that exists in India
What is Mughal Empire?
This form of labor taxation was adopted by the Spanish from the Inca to obtain coerced labor to work their mines.
What was the mit'a system?
This was Portugal’s one possession in the New World.
What is Brazil?
Three innovations/inventions new to Europe that allowed for European ships to venture further and lead to the Age of Exploration for Europe.
What are Lateen Sails, astrolabe, compass, wind pattern charts, understanding of tides, stern rudder, astronomical charts, etc
Europeans were motivated to join this trade network directly instead of going through the Ottoman Empire.
What was the Indian Ocean Trade Network?
The Islamic Empire that mainly exists in present-day Iran
What is Safavid Empire?
The type of slavery where a person is considered property, has no rights and was the type of slavery common to the Americas.
What is chattel slavery?
This city was once the capital of the Aztec Empire, before Hernán Cortés captured it in 1519.
What is Tenochtitlan?
The four main states that dominated the Indian-Ocean sea trade. ex. France, Qing, Russia, United States (this example is very wrong!)
What was Islamic merchants, Portuguese, Dutch, British
This commodity from the New World boosted the Spanish Economy and became a basis for other mercantile economies.
What is Silver (Bullion)?
Ottoman and Safavid empires had a conflict over these two religious branches.
What are Sunni and Shia?
A new way of doing business. Entrepreneurs could buy a part of a company.
Joint Stock Company
Two of the syncretic religions formed in the Caribbean that were a combination of Christian ideas and African Spiritualism.
What is Vodun (Voodoo) or Santeria or Candomble?
The European innovation on this Chinese invention arguably had the biggest impact on the world during this time period (1450-1750)
Gunpowder
What is the enormous network of migration, trade, disease, and the transfer of plants and animals generated by the European colonial empires in the Americas called?
The Columbian Exchange
Identify the maritime civilization responsible for the development of the Caravel and the Carrack.
Portugal
The system where indigenous people were forced to work the land for the Spanish landholders in exchange for food and shelter.
What was the Encomienda System?
This German monk broke away from the Catholic Church due to papal corruption, and formed the basis for Protestantism.
What is Martin Luther?