Define the Word
Cultural Diffusion
The Spread of Culture (food, language, religion, ideas) around the world
How were the Spanish and Portuguese colonial empires different?
the Portuguese built small trading posts around the world while the Spanish took over large amounts of land.
The richest man to ever live because of Gold and Salt in Mali
Mansa Musa
Spanish conquest of the Aztec
Latin America, North America
Potato, Chocolate, Maize, Turkey
New World (all from the Americas)
Columbian Exchange
The exchange of food, diseases, people, animals, and goods between the New World and the Old World after 1492.
How did the Columbian Exchange impact the New World and Old World?
The New World saw disease destroy Native populations, new migrations of Europeans and African slaves, new animals (horses, cows, pigs), new foods and crops like wheat and sugar.
The Old World got new foods (potato) to increase health and population, syphilis spread, access to raw materials (gold,silver), cash crops like tobacco.
The process of the world becoming more connected, especially economically.
Globalization
The Encomienda System forcing natives to work in Potosi, modern day Bolivia.
Latin America, South America
Smallpox, Malaria, Measles, Influenza
Old World (all originally from Africa, Europe, and Asia).
Colonialism
When a country takes over land overseas to build an empire, sometimes settling people there.
Why were the Spanish and Portuguese able to explore around the world in the 1400's?
The movement of slaves from Africa to the Americas, raw materials from the Americas to Europe, and manufactured goods from Europe to Africa
Triangle Trade
Reconquista
grapes, rice, wheat, coffee, sugar
Old World
grapes and wheat from Europe
rice from Africa
coffee and sugar from Asia
Conquistador
Spanish explorers and conquerors of the Americas
How will Colonization of the Americas impact Europeans?
Access to cash crops and resources (gold, silver) allow them to trade around the world, build wealth, and global empires.
A colonial empire built in the 1400's by creating trading posts around the world.
Portuguese Empire
Mansa Musa's Hajj (both origin and destination)
From West Africa, Africa to the Middle East, Asia
Migrations of people (willing and forced)
Old World (African slaves and European settlers)
Reconquista
Christians reconquering the Iberian Peninsula (Spain and Portugal) and driving out Muslims by 1492.
Why didn't Asian countries (especially China and Japan) discover the Americas?
Countries in Asia had easy access to trade and resources, the Pacific is larger than the Atlantic, China had funded exploration that was too expensive and began to isolate itself.
This empire took over large amounts of land in the Americas in the 1500's, motivated by finding Gold, spreading God, and earning Glory.
Spanish Empire
Death of Ferdinand Magellan as his ships went completely around the world for the first time in history
it was in the Philippines
Dogs
Both (horses, sheep, cows, pigs, chickens all are from the Old World). Dogs were domesticated before the land bridge disappeared.