Exploration
Spanish Colonization
Columbian Exchange
Transatlantic Trade
Miscellaneous
100

What trade good was most sought after by Europeans?

Spices

100

Which two countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas?

Spain and Portugal

100

What is an export?

A resource leaving a country to be sold.

100

What is triangular trade?

The reference of trade between Europe, Africa and America making a triangle through the Atlantic Ocean.

100

What are the 3 main reasons Europeans started to explore the Atlantic?

God, Glory and Gold

200

Who succeed in finding a sea trade route to India?

Vasco de Gama

200

How did the Treaty of Tordesillas divide the new world?

Spain would get all new land discovered to the West and Portugal would get all new land discovered to the East.

200

What is the Columbian Exchange?

The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New World.

200

What was the name for the trip between Africa and America for slaves?

The Middle Passage

200

Why did Europeans stop along the coast of Africa on their way to India?

To restock on supplies.

300

What empire controlled trade with Asia, forcing Europeans to look for a sea route?

Ottoman Empire

300

What disease spread from the Spanish to the Native Americans killing millions of their people?

Smallpox

300

What is one thing that was traded through the Columbian Exchange?

Plants, animals or diseases.

300

What did Africans want from Europeans?

Guns and textiles

300

What is a long term effect of Spanish Colonization has had?

Spanish is still spoken in the Americas

400

What does conquistador mean?

Conqueror

400

What were the labor camps used by the Spanish on Native Americans?

The Encomienda system

400

What is one social impact of the Columbian Exchange?

More nutritious foods like corn and potatoes increases population growth

Mass migration of people to the Americas

European expansion of Atlantic Slave Trade

400

How were African Kingdoms involved in the slave trade?

Some African kingdoms sold enemy tribes into slavery to Europeans to gain power and wealth.

400

What is an import?

A resource coming into a country to be sold.

500

Where did Christopher Columbus think he sailed to? Where did he actually sail to?

India and the Americas or Caribbean 

500

Why were the Spanish able to conquer the Native Americans?

They had superior weapons, spread of diseases, and effect ways to travel.

500

What is Mercantilism?

A nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver.

500

What is one effect of the Transatlantic Trade?

Many different responses could be accepted.

500

How did Spanish Colonization cause the African Slave Trade?

The Spanish originally used Native Americans but they were dying out so they used Africans for labor.

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