MARITIME EXPLORATION
This Portuguese device helped sailors determine latitude at sea.
Answer: What is an astrolabe?
This American crop became a staple food in Europe and Africa.
Answer: What is maize/corn?
This Asian product was the most valuable European import from the East.
Answer: What are spices?
This crop was grown on plantations in Brazil using enslaved labor.
Answer: What is sugar?
This African kingdom controlled the gold trade with Europeans.
Answer: What is Songhai?
This Portuguese explorer reached India by sailing around Africa in 1498.
Answer: Who is Vasco da Gama?
This European animal transformed Native American warfare and hunting.
Answer: What is the horse?
This commodity was mined in Potosí and shipped to both Europe and Asia.
Answer: What is silver?
This Spanish labor system forced Native Americans to work in mines.
Answer: What is the mita system?
This system of slavery moved millions of Africans to the Americas.
Answer: What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
The agreement by the Pope and the kings of Spain and Portugal that divided up the “New World.”
Answer: What is the Treaty of Tordesillas
This American plant became crucial to the African slave trade as a food crop.
Answer: What is manioc/cassava?
The Spanish established this trading port to trade directly with China..
Answer: What is Manilla or the Philippines
These Spanish colonial administrators represented royal authority.
Answer: Who are viceroys?
This Portuguese colony in Africa became crucial for the slave trade.
Answer: What is Angola?
This technological innovation helped prevent scurvy on long voyages.
Answer: What is the preservation of citrus fruits/vitamin C?
This Old World crop transformed Chinese agriculture and population growth.
Answer: What are sweet potatoes?
This trade pattern connected Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
Answer: What is the Triangle Trade?
This social hierarchy in Spanish colonies was based on racial ancestry.
Answer: What is the casta system?
This form of resistance by enslaved people involved cultural preservation.
Answer: What is cultural resistance/marriage?
This Chinese admiral led massive treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean.
Answer: Who is Zheng He?
This disease devastated Native American populations after European contact.
Answer: What is smallpox?
This Chinese trade policy restricted European traders to one port city.
Answer: What is the Canton System?
These religious dissenters, seeking to "purify" the Church of England, established the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Answer: Who are the Pilgrims/Separatists?
These African intermediaries facilitated the slave trade with Europeans.
Answer: Who are African rulers/elites?