Aztec Conquest
Who is the Spanish Conquistador that overthrows the Aztec Empire?
Hernando Cortez
Who is the Spanish Conquistador that overthrows the Incan Empire?
Francisco Pizarro
What was the first ancient West African kingdom (300 to 1100 CE) that develops as a result of trans-Saharan trade and eventually converts to Islam?
Ghana
What resource is the main economic engine of the kingdoms of Oyo, Ashanti & Dahomey?
Slaves
Who captured the majority of slaves in the early modern slave trade?
Slavers from African Slave Kingdoms
What is the main cause of the fall of the Aztec Empire, which the Europeans bring with them an unknowingly pass to the Aztecs?
Smallpox (disease)
How do the Spanish use military technology, like horses, cannons and muskets, to capture the Incan emperor?
They trap the Incan Emperor and his soldiers (6000) in a room and the firepower causes them to trample each other allowing the Spanish the chance to capture the emperor.
What was the second West African kingdom (1200-1500 CE) built on trans-Saharan trade and establish the Islamic university at Timbuktu and boast such powerful rulers as the Lion-king Sundiata and the wealthiest medieval king, Mansa Musa?
Mali
What are main resources involved in the trans-Saharan trade networks of the kingdoms of Ghana, Mali & Songhai?
Gold & Salt
Slaves were primarily comprised of which types of people?
Prisoners of war or criminals
The Spanish conquistador who conquers the Aztecs has an army comprised of only 5% Spanish soldiers, who make up the rest of his army?
Warriors from other indigenous groups whom the Aztecs had previously conquered and colonized.
What do the Spanish demand in exchange for the Incan Emperors life and do they keep their promise once the Inca deliver?
They demand gold and silver, which is brought from all over the Incan Empire, but then kill the emperor anyway.
What is the name of the medieval Stone Kingdom in sub-Saharan Africa which mysteriously disappears?
Great Zimbabwe
What major religious idea spreads along the trans-Saharan trade routes and eventually south to sub-Saharan Africa, which outlawed slavery?
Islam
Who were the slave traders that bought African slaves?
European Slave Traders
How does the Cuban governor respond when he learns that the Spanish trading mission has turned into a military campaign and what is end result?
The Cuban governor comes to stop the conquest of the Aztec and arrest the Spanish conquistador, but is defeated.
How does disease play a role in the Spanish conquest of the Inca and where does it come from?
Smallpox (disease) comes from the Aztecs and kills the emperor leading to an Incan civil war between his sons.
What are the names of the three Slave Kingdoms which arise in the west coast of Africa in the early modern period?
Oyo, Dahomey, Ashanti
What are main resources traded in order to sustain the economy of Great Zimbabwe?
Ivory & Gold
Slavery from the ancient to modern times traditionally ended at one's death or freedom and was a result of circumstance not family or ethnicity; what was different about slavery in Europe?
Slavery became racial and intergenerational
What is the name of the Aztec emperor who falls to the Spanish conquest?
Montezuma II
What is the name of the Incan emperor who falls to the Spanish conquest?
Atahualpa
What was the third Islamic West African kingdom (1400-1500 CE) built on trans-Saharan trade in which Timbuktu thrives and becomes a cultural and trading center in the region?
Songhai Caliphate
What are main resources involved in the trade networks of the Swahili city-states, which trade across the Indian Ocean?
Ivory, Gold & Slaves
What was the horrific leg of the triangular trade system called which refers to the voyage of enslaved peoples from Africa to the Americas?
The Middle Passage