Geography
What ocean did the triangular trade routes cross?
Atlantic Ocean
Where did most enslaved people who worked in the Americas come from?
West Africa
What country conquered most of South and Central America by defeating empires such as the Inca and the Aztec?
Spain
What were men hired by Spain to lead the conquest of the Americas called?
Conquistadors
Name a country that speaks a particular language because of colonization.
Brazil and Portuguese, USA and English, Peru and Spanish etc.
Name the largest Portuguese colony in the Americas.
Brazil
What was the name of the flow of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas during the Age of European colonization.
The Triangular Trade
What country colonized Brazil and imported the highest number of enslaved Africans?
Portugal
What is a term for a person who signs a contract to work for a defined number of years in exchange for housing, food, and passage to the colonies.
Indentured Servant
Name a type of food that is eaten in Europe today that was part of the Columbian Exchange.
Potatoes, Tomatoes, Avocados, Beans, Corn, etc.
What type commodities usually traveled from the Americas to Europe during the triangular trade?
raw materials
What was the name for the journey made by millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas?
The Middle Passage
What country colonized the 13 colonies that became the United States and was the dominant force in the African slave trade by the 1700s?
England/Great Britain/the United Kingdom
Define Smallpox
A highly contagious disease that produced a high fever and small blisters on the skin.
Tell us at least two examples for how colonization impacted enslaved Africans.
Slavery, loss of culture, loss of language, loss of traditions, generational trauma, racism, dehumanization
Name two modern countries in the Americas that used to be Spanish colonies.
Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, etc.
What crop did enslaved Africans most commonly farm in the new world?
Sugarcane
What country founded the cities of New Orleans, Quebec, and Montreal in North America?
France
Define Exploited
Used to one’s own advantage.
Population decline due to disease
Violence and warfare
Loss of land
Loss of culture and traditions
Enslavement
Paper genocide
Dehumanization
Name two modern countries that used to be English colonies.
USA, Canada, India, South Africa, Pakistan... many more
What was the name for the type large type of farm or work camp that enslaved Africans were forced to work on in the Americas?
a Plantation
What country first colonized the area that is now New York City and called it New Amsterdam?
The Netherlands
Define Racism
The systemic oppression of a racial group to the social, economic, and political advantage of another.
Tell us at least two examples of how colonization impacted Europeans.
Economic growth both in the colonies and in the home country
Expansion of society and territory
Expansion of global power
Expansion of Christianity