Explorers
The Columbian Exchange is named after him.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These two continents make up the New World.
What are North and South America?
It's an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
What is Mercantilism?
He was a Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
This is the science or art of map making.
What is cartography?
He was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is the transfer of plants, animals, disease, culture, and ideas between the Old and New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The route which traded people, raw materials, slaves, and manufactured goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade? (will accept the Transatlantic Slave Trade or the Slave Trade)
He founded the city of Lima, Peru.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
This was the voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.
What is the middle passage?
North and South America are named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The two main exports to come out of the New World
What are tobacco and potatoes?
A country's wealth is measured by how much of this it had.
He is known for crossing the Isthmus of Panama.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
These are conditions that effectively attract people to new locations
What are pull factors?
They were the first Europeans to visit North America.
Who are the Vikings?
This wiped out a majority of the indigenous population in the New World.
What is disease? (will accept smallpox or cocoliztli)
Mother countries provided these to their colonies in exchange for raw materials.
What are manufactured goods?
He was the governor of Guatemala and was known as the "Sun God" because of his blond hair.
Who was Pedro de Alvarado?
These are any international transaction that causes goods to flow into a country and any international transaction that causes goods to flow out of a country.
What are imports and exports?
He searched for the mythical "Fountain of Youth".
Who is Juan Ponce de Leon?
These were of Spanish birth, born in America, who were on the second tier of the class system in America.
Who are Creoles?
Countries can achieve a favorable balance of trade by doing this.
What is exporting more than they're importing? (will accept selling more than they're buying)
He was a clergyman who petitioned the Spanish Crown against the abuses of indigenous people
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
These were city-states that flourished in Italy and the Mediterranean that built fleets of ships both for their own protection and to support extensive trade networks
What are merchant republics?