Spice Trade
Spices were valuable because
Added flavor to food and showed class status
Russian leadership required a tax to be paid in what?
What is fur
Slaves primarily went from ________ to _________
From Africa to the Americas
Where most of the world's silver was produced
What is Spanish America / Bolivia
These rulers took over Japan
What are shoguns?
Spices primarily came from this country
The price you paid if you didn't pay the price
What is getting kidnapped?
The conditions for slaves in transit were ...
What is the conditions were terrible, many slaves died on the way?
The path that silver most commonly took (need 3 places)
What is Spanish America -> Philippines -> China/India
The type of empire the Portuguese established
What is a trade post empire?
These two empires dominated the Spice Trade
What are the Portuguese and the Spanish?
This was a major consequence of the fur trade on the animal population
What is the animal population heavily decreased?
Define diaspora
What is the spread of a population from one area to another
This country required its taxes to be paid in silver
What is China?
Explain what an 'East India Company' was
A company that was allowed by their country to act as a colonial power, could declare war, establish currency, etc.
Explain why the Portuguese developed alternate trade routes
What is to go around the Middle East/Cairo which was controlled by the Ottoman Empire?
Wanted to prevent increasing Ottoman power, wealth, influence, etc.
Provide a positive and negative impact the fur trade had on native populations
What is new goods/increased trade/increased conflict/dependence on European goods?
This many slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas over a few hundred years
What is 12.5 million?
The city where the world's largest silver mine was
Explain the impact of East India companies on prices
Prices soared 14-17x as a result of these companies' monopolies
Name of Portuguese explorer who discovered alternate trade route
Who was Vasco da Gama?
Name 5 things Native Americans got from the fur trade with Europeans
What are guns / blankets / alcohol / diseases / religion / tools / tobacco /
These things spread as a result of the slave trade
Wealth / culture / racism / religion / disease?
Second largest source of the world's silver?
What is Japan?
How did the Japanese shoguns feel about Europeans?
They did not like them, banned trade with them, travel out of the empire, killed all who practiced Christianity