The Conquerers
What is Portugal?
The land that Columbus actually discovered
What are the West Indies or Caribbean Islands?
This land-based empire managed Hindu, Muslim and Sikh populations into the 1700s.
Who are the Mughals?
The largest killer of indigenous populations in the Americas was not human, but this
What is disease?
These holy orders were a facilitator to Spanish and Portuguese exploration beginning in the 1400s.
What are the Papal Bulls?
This European power went crazy and sponsored a voyage to the edge of the Earth... or so some thought.
What is Spain?
This Amerindian empire of Central America fell to the Spanish in 1524.
Who are the Aztecs?
These warriors resisted Mughal rule in the 1700s and began the process of the destruction of the Mughal Empire.
Who are the Maratha warriors?
This was the name of the movement of people, new foods, and cultures across the Atlantic Ocean from New World to Old and Old World to New.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This religious sect spread its influence through Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries.
What is Roman Catholicism?
This European power planted itself in the northern passages of the New World, but was forced out despite having alliances with Amerindians.
What is France?
This Amerindian empire rode against European expansion. They weren't horsing around...
Who are the Comanche?
This land-based empire tried to be more like its neighbors despite not beginning an overseas empire.
What is Russia?
This was the region that European powers desperately wanted to engage in trade.
What is the Indian Ocean Exchange?
Religious conversion was used as the justification for the practice of this terrible operation.
What is slavery?
Who are the Dutch?
This Amerindian empire fell to the Spanish in the 1530s. There was no silver lining for them.
Who are the Inca?
This land-based empire proved to be the catalyst for European expansion due to its influence on the trade routes that ended in its borders.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
My precious... this luxury item flooded the markets in East Asia from Spanish ships and started a price revolution.
What is silver?
This event led to the waning influence of the Catholic Church and spurred the Vatican to sponsor Spanish and Portuguese exploration in the name of God.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
This European power was late to the game but the longest and largest empire to rule the waves.
What is Britain/England?
This geographic region slowly isolated itself from European influence and resisted against being conquered by Christianity.
What is East Asia?
These pesky little powers controlled trade in the Mediterranean who also contributed to the beginnings of the age of exploration.
What are the Italian City-States?
Colonization brought Europeans to the new world, and brought this social structure into the Spanish colonies.
The failure of Christian missionaries to fully convert indigenous populations led to religions that would be considered this term for blended.
What is syncretic?