Asia
What was the VOC?
The Dutch East India Company
Name 2 indigenous ethno-linguistic groups that resisted European colonization in the New World.
Inkas
Aztecs
Mayans
Caxcanes
Tainos
How did the role of women in eastern societies change through the expansion of the Indian Ocean Trade?
"Women who had played major roles such as ritual specialists, healers, and mid-wives were now displaced by Spanish Priests"
What was the name used to describe mixed groups of enslaved and indigenous people who escaped and formed independent communities in the Caribbean and South America
Example: The Esmeraldas were one of these
Maroons
What were the pogroms?
Violent anti-Jewish riots. Many took place in Spain during the Inquisition and as well as in Russia and Germany
In what modern country is Cape Coast Castle Located?
Ghana
Name one port where silver was transported by the Spanish from the Americas to Asia?
Lima, Acapulco, Panama, or Manila
Why did Ming China decide to make silver coinage their currency?
They had used paper money previously, which was mismanaged and led to rampant inflation
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Silver was economically stable (at first)
Name 3 American crops that were brought from the NEW World to the OLD World via the Columbian Exchange
Potatoes, Sweet potatoes, Vanilla, Avocados, Tobacco, Pumpkins, Squash, Cacao beans, Pineapple, Beans, Corn, Tomatoes, Peanuts, Cassava, Peppers, Quinine
What was the Reqonquista? (Who, what, where and roughly when)
A series of military and cultural campaigns by Northern Christians against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had previously been part of the Visigothic Kingdom before the Muslim Conquest of 711.
During and after the Reqonquista, the Inquisition began, where muslims and jews were forcibly converted to Christianity
Name one island referred to as "a school for the colonizers" by Patel and Moore
The Canaries
Madeira
Sao Tomé
OR Cyprus
Name 2 reasons why the Portuguese wanted to find a direct sea route to India in the 15th century?
- Desire for spices and silks
- Venice controlled the mediterranean, and the Ottomans (later on) controlled the Middle East. Both groups charged taxes on trade goods.
- Spread Christianity
What was the Inter Caetera? Who was it from?
Papal Bull (from Pope Alexander VI) signed in 1493 giving rights to Spain over lands West of a specified meridian, and for Portugal East of said meridian.
This gave Portugal Brazil.
The Bull also charged all Christian nations to convert natives to Christianity.
What was the 'classificatory dilemma' according to Dr. Green-Mercado?
Name two impacts the trade in enslaved people had on West African societies.
For example: Depopulation, Generational Trauma, Economic stagnation, created a power vacuum
among others
Kinshasa
What is the name of the region that Mughal Emperor Babur writes about capturing in The Baburnama ?
Bajaur
What was a 'Coyote' according to the Casta paintings?
Mestizo + Indian (25% Spanish, 75% Indian)
What were the names of the two Spanish Kingdoms which united to become Spain in the 15th century?
Aragon and Castile
Cape Coast Castle was controlled by what European power?
Sweden, Denmark, the Dutch, and finally, England (all at different times)
What was the capital of Al-Andalus in the year 1000 AD?
Córdoba