Exploration & Motivation
This country led early exploration with Prince Henry the Navigator.
What is Portugal?
This deadly disease devastated Native American populations.
What is smallpox?
This African diaspora describes the forced movement of Africans.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
This empire conquered the Aztecs.
What is the Spanish Empire?
This racial classification system developed in Spanish colonies.
What is the caste system (casta system)?
This centuries-long effort by Christian kingdoms aimed to retake Iberia from Muslims.
What is the Reconquista?
This religion motivated Spain to spread Christianity in the Americas.
What is Catholicism?
These animals were introduced to the Americas by Europeans.
What are horses?
This labor system required natives to work a certain number of days.
What is the mita system?
Africa, Asia, and Europe are considered part of the ________ World.
What is the Old World?
This term describes people of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry.
What are mestizos?
This year marks the year Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World
1492
The desire for these three things drove European exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
This system describes the exchange of goods, people, and diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This triangular trade route carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This global trade network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This term refers to people of mixed African and European ancestry.
What are mulattoes?
These two monarchs unified Spain and supported Columbus’s voyage.
Ferdinand and Isabella
This technological advancement improved navigation using the stars.
What is the astrolabe?
This cash crop led to plantation economies and reliance on slave labor.
What is sugar?
This form of labor involved long-term contracts for passage.
What is indentured servitude?
Silver from this region fueled global trade, especially with China.
What is Petosi?
This religion blended African and Christian beliefs in the Americas.
What is syncretism?
This institution sought to enforce religious unity in Spain after the Reconquista.
What is the Spanish Inquisition?
This treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This crop from the Americas helped boost population in Europe.
What is the potato?
This system forced natives to work for Spanish landowners
What is the encomienda system?
These companies were funded by investors to reduce risk.
What is Joint-Stock Company?
The Casta system was originally not based on race but based on_____________.
What is moral worth?
This Asian country limited foreign trade to one port but still became central to global silver trade.
What is China?