Why did you do that?
You call that a fair trade?
The Atlantic Slave Trade
That's how you get it done!
How in the world?
100
This nation grew so powerful in the 15th Century that European traders needed to seek a sea trade route to Asia to gain access to the spice trade.
What was the Ottoman Empire
100
Without this American fruit (yes, it's a fruit) the modern day pizza would be impossible!
What is a tomato?
100
It is often assumed that Africans were captured in Africa by Europeans. That's not so. They were captured by these people.
Who are other Africans?
100
In the late 15th century, if you wanted to sail with greater accuracy, you could use this new invention to calculate your latitude--to some degree.
What is the astrolabe?
100
You guys like chilies? Well they don't come from Indonesia. They come from this other place.
What is South America?
200
To lure Spanish settlers to the Americas, this system was created in which a Spanish settler would get land and the native people living on it as laborers if he just came to the Spanish colonies in the Americas.
What is the Encomienda System?
200
This sweet plant makes almost everything it's part of very tasty. It is also one very big reason for why the Atlantic Slave Trade became so profitable.
What is sugar?
200
African tribal leaders traded captive Africans to European slave traders. Often for these European goods.
What are guns, iron goods and alcohol?
200
It's hard to sail against wind unless you have these triangular shaped sails?
What are lateen sails?
200
Brazil is pretty good at football these days. Maybe they learned the game from this former colonizer.
Who is Portugal?
300
The Native Americans were dying off from disease and found it easy to escape slavery, so Europeans looked to this continent for new slaves.
What is Africa?
300
A lot diseases common to Europeans had never been experienced by Native Americans before Europeans arrived. Most famously is this deadly one--maybe not large in stature but lethal in any dose!
What is small pox?
300
16% of all Africans sent across the Middle Passage did not survive the journey. Many died from disease and disease was common because of these conditions.
What are crowded, unhygienic places with poorly fed and cared for people living in them (or something like that)?
300
This is how you get a favorable balance of trade.
What is export more than you import?
300
This modern country is mostly English speaking--although in some parts they speak mainly French. Now, how could that be?
What is Canada?
400
To obtain a favorable balance of trade, gain raw materials and new markets for their manufactured goods, some European nations created these.
What are colonies?
400
This geometric trade route connected four continents and included the deadly Middle Passage.
What is Triangular Trade?
400
Captured, traded, transported to the Americas and the slaves had to go through this.
What is a Slave Auction?
400
Today economists measure a nations wealth based up the total value of all it produces. In the age of mercantilism it was measured by this.
What is the amount of gold the nation had?
400
Hold your horses! These animals didn't come to the Americas directly from Spain. They came to Spain from another part of the world first.
What is the Asia?
500
Christopher Columbus wanted to find a sea route to Asia. He didn't. This Portuguese sailor was the first European to do that.
Who is Vasco de la Gama?
500
While Native Americans had used the crop for many years, it wasn't until European explorers came that Europeans began to consume this product. And that's not a lot of hot air!
What is tobacco?
500
There were two basic categories for slaves. Field workers planted, gardened and harvest crops. And these people were cooks, nannies and butlers.
Who are house slaves?
500
Vasco da Gama had good reason to think he could get to India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa. A previous Portuguese sailor had almost done it and gave that tip of Africa this optimistic name.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
500
Sometimes it's better to be lucky than good. The conquistadores had a lot advantages over the Inca and all of them had to do with one thing.
What is geography?
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