Exploration and Early Imperialism
The term for building an empire by expanding a country's power and influence.
What is imperialism?
The term for the ancient network of trade routes connecting Europe and Asia.
What is the Silk Road?
The system where European monarchs sponsored international trade to increase national wealth.
What is mercantilism?
The economic system that prioritizes wealth creation for individuals rather than monarchs.
What is capitalism?
European imperialism led to this practice, where Indigenous land was taken for European settlement.
What is land seizure?
The European country that sent Columbus to explore the New World.
What is Spain?
The primary Chinese export that gave the Silk Road its name.
What is silk?
This type of European-sponsored trading venture sought to make both the monarch and merchants rich.
What is a mercantilist company?
The major technological revolution that shifted production from home-based work to factories.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
European nations often forced Indigenous people to work under poor conditions, an example of this exploitation.
What is forced labor?
This explorer entered Canada in the name of France and established early French claims.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
This Italian explorer traveled along the Silk Road, bringing stories of China back to Europe.
Who is Marco Polo?
Mercantilist companies helped build empires by trading and establishing colonies; this company's monopoly in India is one example.
What is the British East India Company?
The economic shift that reduced the role of mercantilist companies in favor of private businesses.
What is the rise of capitalism?
This 19th-century conference formalized the partitioning of Africa among European nations.
What is the Berlin Conference?
This European country explored Asia and set up early colonies in present-day Indonesia.
What is the Netherlands?
Key trade goods along the Silk Road included silk, spices, and this precious gemstone.
What is jade?
This term describes the economic control over a region to maximize a mother country’s wealth, as seen in British India.
What is a trade monopoly?
This term describes private ownership of production in an economic system with minimal government control.
What is free market capitalism?
The term for the belief in European superiority, which justified imperial control over other cultures.
What is Eurocentrism?
Known for his Pacific exploration, this British explorer helped expand British influence in Oceania.
Who is Captain James Cook?
Name one challenge merchants faced along the Silk Road.
What are conflict, starvation, disease, or exposure?
The main goal of the British East India Company in India.
What is to gain favorable trade privileges?
The process where small industries were replaced by large factories, transforming economies and society.
What is industrialization?
This economic term describes the extraction of resources from colonies for the benefit of the mother country.
What is resource exploitation?