Colonization
Columbian Exchange
Middle Passage
Triangular Trade Route
Mercantilism
100

This is the process of settling among and establishing control over indigenous people?

What is Colonization

100

This was the worldwide redistribution of plants and animals between the East and West?

What was the Columbian Exchange?

100

This was the voyage that brought Africans to the Americas as slaves

What was the Middle Passage

100

These were the three regions involved in the Triangular Trade

What were Europe, Africa, and the Americas?

100

This economic theory was used to increase a country's power through trade

What was mercantilism?

200

This is a term for the original settlers of a region

What is a Indigenous, First Peoples, or Native Peoples?

200

Name one item traded from the New World to the Old World.

Answers checked by Teacher: vanilla, chocolate, potatoes, tomatoes, corn, turkey, etc.

200

This percentage of enslaved Africans died during the Middle Passage

What was 15%

200

This was one good traded from Europe to Africa.

What was; rum, cloth, weapons, tools, iron, copper, beads, cowry shells, tobacco, pottery, glass, metal cookware

200

How did mercantilism affect colonial economies?

What was limiting economic growth of colonial businesses, colonial dependence on the 'mother' country, high inflation and taxes, slave trade, friction between the colonists and mother country

300

This system required natives to work for protection and education

What was the encomienda system?

300

This was an item brought from the Old World to the New World?

Answer checked by teacher: diseases, cattle, pigs, horses, coffee, sugar, wheat

300

Name one reason for the decline in the Native population due to colonization

What was: diseases, harsh working conditions under slavery, tribal warfare, famine

300

This was transported from Africa to the Americas?

What were enslaved people?

300

This was a role that colonies play in a mercantilist system?

They were new markets for goods produced by the colonial 'mother' country

400

This agreement divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal

What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?

400

Name a disease exchanged during the Columbian Exchange

What was: smallpox, influenza (the flu), typhus, measles, malaria, diphtheria, whooping cough, syphilis. 
400

This was a significant consequence of the Middle Passage for African communities

severe disruption and devastation of their populations, social and economic instability, weakened communities, and a lasting trauma from the forced separation of families and cultural disruption; communities left vulnerable to further exploitation and colonization as a result of the slave trade.

400

This was one of the main crop traded from the Americas to Europe

What was corn (maize)? Also acceptable:potatoes, tobacco, sugar, cotton, rice, indigo, and molasses 

400

The exchange of plants, animals, and disease from the East to the West and West to East, was named after this man

Who was Christopher Columbus

500

This economic system focused on increasing a country’s wealth by reducing the cost of imports and increasing exports

What was Mercantilism?

500

This was a positive effect of the Columbian Exchange.

EX: New foods introduced to Europe, Africa, and Asia increased their populations; Increase population health (mortality rate decrease), new crops introduced to the New World thrived (coffee, wheat, sugar, rice)= increased global food production; 

500

This group often took in and protected slaves who were able to escape

Who were Native Americans?

500

Explain how the Triangular Trade impacted global economies.

What was economic growth in europe, African depopulation and societal disruption, the rise of colonial powers, the rise of the mercantilism system

500

True or False: Mercantilism relies on a nation INCREASING their Imports and DECREASING their Exports

False: Decreased imports and Increased Exports

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