What is the 3 legged journey that connected the continents through trade?
Triangular Trade
100
What is the names of the large farms that slaves were brought to the Americas to work on?
plantations
100
Identify 1 item that Europeans were trying to get from the Indies
Spices, silks, opiates
100
What is the name given to Spanish conquerers/explorers?
conquistadors
200
What name did Columbus call the first island in America?
San Salvador
200
What is the name of the journey that the slaves crossed from Africa to the Americas?
Middle Passage
200
What is one of the crops that slaves grew in the Americas?
Cotton, tobacco, bananas,sugar and lumber
200
What is land that is owned by a mother country called?
Colony
200
What food led to the decrease of famine in Europe during the Columbian exchange?
potatoes
300
Who funded Columbus's voyage to find a shorter route to the Indies?
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
300
What ocean did slaves cross when being brought ot America?
Atlantic
300
What area of Africa did the mnajority of slaves come from?
West Africa
300
What is the sickness that sailors experienced because a lack of vitamin C in their diets. (Causes rotting teeth and bleeding gums)
Scurvy
300
What group of people dominated the trade routes between Europe and the East Indies during the Age of Exploration?
Muslims
400
What are the names of the 3 ships that Columbus used on his first voyage to the Americas?
Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria
400
What continents were connected in the Triangular trade?
Europe, Africa, North and South America
400
Who did the Europeans first try to use as slaves, before the Africans?
Native Americans
400
What is the name of the explorer who has been creditied with the first attempt to circumnavigate the globe?
Magellan
400
Who is the most notable pirate that was notorious for stealing from Spanish ships and was later knighted by Queen Elizabeth
Sir Francis Drake
500
What is the name given to global trading after Columbus came to the Americas...hint, it is named after him.
Columbian Exchange
500
What is the belief that the world has a limited amount of resources and that European countries needed to colonize lands in order to collect the natural resources that they had
Mercantilism
500
Why were the Native Americans not suitable as slaves for the Europeans?
lack of immunities/diseases
500
What was the explorer Ponce de Leon searching for when he landed in Florida?
Fountain of Youth
500
Which ocean did Magellan name? It means peaceful sea.