Who Explored?
Why Explore?
The Columbian Exchange
New Economic Ideas
Triangle Trade
100

This person's ship and crew were the first to circumnavigate the globe, although he was killed in the Philippines.

(Knife)

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

100

This was the third G, in addition to "Gold" and "Glory"

(Fork)

What is God?

100

The spread of this allowed Pizzaro to conquer the Incan Empire with only 180 men.

(Spoon)

What is disease?

100

Capitalists are people who use this to make money.

(Fork)

What is Capital (eg Land, Buildings or Money)?

100

The growing demand for raw materials and profits meant as colonies grew, so did this grim practice

(Spoon)

What is the Slave Trade?

200

This French explorer mapped and established the fur trade in what is today Canada.

(Fork)

Who is Jacques Cartier?

200

These sails, adapted by Europeans from Arabian sailing techniques, allowed ships to sail against currents and into the wind

(Fork)

What are Lateen Sails?

200

Plants found in the New World could be categorized into two categories: cash crops and these

(Fork)

What are foodstuffs?

200

Investors who pool their money together to fund exploration and colonization, and stand to gain money from the venture's success, form this type of economic organization

(Spoon)

What is a Joint Stock Company?

200

In exchange for enslaved people, African polities received this from European traders in the Triangle Trade route

(Spoon)

What are manufactured goods?

300

After the collapse of this Empire, its trade routes were taken over by the Dutch East India Company and the  British East India Company

(Knife)

What is the Portuguese Empire?

300

Columbus's ships, the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria were this type of sturdy, round-bottomed boat.

(Spoon)

What is a Caravel

300
In addition to having more food, populations in Europe increased because the Columbian Exchanged allowed them to have this

(Spoon)

What are healthier diets?

300

Believing there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world, and that one group gaining money means another group must lose money, is a key idea behind this economic system

(Knife)

What is Mercantilism?

300

This leg of the Triangle Trade Route transported enslaved Africans to the New World

(Spoon)

What is the Middle Passage?

400

This treaty was drawn up by Pope Alexander to solidify the territorial claims of Portugal and Spain.

(Spoon)

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

400

Coastal European powers began exploring the seas because Italy and the Ottoman Empire had this type of control over trade along the Silk Road and Mediterranean.

(Spoon)

What is a monopoly?

400

This crop, native to the New World, is used to treat and prevent malaria, eventually allowing Europeans to venture into the jungles of Africa and South America

(Knife)

What is quinine?

400

Colonies existed primarily to provide these to mother countries?

(Fork)

What are raw materials?

400

While the colonies that would become the American South only received about 5% of the total people sold as slaves, this country received almost half

(Fork)

What is Brazil?

500

Before Columbus's explorations, this Portuguese explorer proved it was possible so sail around the southern tip of Africa

(Knife)

Who is Bartolomeu Dias?

500

This Portuguese noble funded a Navigation Center, bringing together the brightest captains, shipbuilders and navigators and funding their voyages

(Knife)

Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?

500

Work animals like horses and oxen were imported from the Old World because the largest domesticated animals in the New World were these comparatively weak animals, native to the Andes Mountains

(Knife)

What are Llamas?

500

The mercantile idea that you should export more than you import is called having a favorable this

(Knife)

What is Balance of Trade?

500

Industries that turned raw materials into finished products were primarily found in this region of the Triangle Trade Route, as the other two were discouraged from producing things on their own

(Knife)

What is Europe?

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