Exploration
Which Explorer traveled to central America and started the Columbian Exchange?
Christopher Columbus
A territory or piece of land controlled for the purpose of providing resources to a more powerful country or nation
Colony
Define Columbian Exchange
the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases from America to Europe
Which Letter is the location of the Aztec Empire?
C
What is the name of a Spanish or Portugese explorer?
Conquistador
Which Explorer Circumnavigated the World?
Ferdinand Magellan
What is one of the major ways that Colonization has impacted society that we can see today
Latin America speaking Spanish
What is the most important good that Europeans brought to the American in the Columbian Exchange (Ms. Polniak has made you say is 100 times)
Horse
Which Native American society lived in the mountains?
Inca
What rules did the mother country put on the colony in mercantilism
- no buying, selling or manufacturing without permission
What are the tools that helped explorers on sea? (3)
- Caravel
- Astrolabe
- Magnetic Compass
What does "encomienda" refer to?
the system of slavery where native americans were forced to labor on estates if they could not pay tributes
What was the Middle Passage
trip between Africa and the Americas that shipped enslaved africans
What were the crops used in "three sisters"
Squash, Corn, Beans - navajo
What is the country with the highest number of spanish speakers today?
Mexico
What are the various reasons that Europeans went exploring? (4)
- Avoid overland trade route
- Desire for new products like spices
- Desire for new profitable resources like gold and silver
- Spread Christianity
For what reasons were the Spanish able to conquer native Americans? (3)
Military tech, enslavement of native people, european disease
What specific things happened in Africa after the Atlantic Slave trade started.
War, depopulation
Which Native American Society established a confederation of states?
Iroquois
What is a "Chinampa"
Name one Explorer from Spain, one from Portugal, and one from England.
possible answers
- Spain (Francisco Pizzaro, Chris Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci)
- Portugal (Bartolomeu Dias, Vasco de Gama)
- England (John Cabot)
Describe how Mercantilism works for both parties
Mother country requires colony to provide raw materials and ships manufactured goods back to colony. Colony has no say.
List one way the Old world was changed and one way the new world was changed by the Columbian Exchange?
- native animals pushed out
- new foods and staples
What is the difference between the environment of the Iroquois and the Aztec
forest vs. Swamp
Who is Nzinga Mbemba?
King of Kongo