Countries
Prince Henry and Vasco Da Gama sailed for......
Portugal
What system created the social hierarchy in the Ottoman Empire?
Devshirme System
What is Mercantilism?
Governments using high tariffs on colonies to maximize exports and minimize imports to hoard gold (aka make a ton of money off of their colonies)
Was the revolution that transformed the economy to trade-based using new trade routes and population growth
Commercial Revolution
What are the three G's for exploration?
Gold, God and Glory
Christopher Columbus sailed for ________ but was from __________
Spain / Italy
What system was used in Russia between Boyars and Serfs?
Feudalism
What is a Trading Post Empire?
BONUS: What country WAS a Trading Post Empire?
Setting up small trade-posts across straits or small areas in order to establish a larger monopoly, control trade and tax those coming in and out
BONUS: Portugal
Included the high rate of inflation caused by the increased circulation of Gold and Silver in the economies due to overseas colonies
Price Revolution
Name THREE things exchanged along the Columbian Exchange:
Food, Disease, Materials, People etc.
What TWO countries signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, and what did it do?
Portugal and Spain, divided South America between the two of them into spheres of influence
Label for people born in Spain, but living in the colonies
Peninsulares
What is the difference between Indentured Servitude and Chattel Slavery?
Indentured Servants volunteered and earned their freedom, whereas Chattel Slavery was NOT voluntary and they did not EARN their freedom
What is a Cossack?
Serfs who ran way to the Black Sea in Russia due to harsher conditions imposed on them, rebelling against Catherine the Great
Name THREE different Cash Crops:
Okra, Rice, Sugar, Tabacco, Coffee, Cocoa
Henry Hudson sailed for _______________ and set up WHAT colony/state?
The Netherlands / New York
Label for those born in the Americas, but were of 100% spanish descent
Criollos
What is the Encomienda System?
A labor grant where the Spanish Crown gave colonists control over a specific group of indigenous people to collect tribute/forced labor in exchange for protection
The Pueblo Revolt was between _______ and _________ against what?
Spain / Indigenous People, against religious conversion forced by colonists
What is a joint-stock company?
BONUS: What is an example of one?
owned by investors who bought stock or shares in them (investing capital and shared both profits and risks of the trading ventures)
BONUS: British East India Company, Dutch-East India Company
Name all FIVE Maritime Empires
Portugal, Spain, France, England, The Netherlands
People of mixed Spanish and Indigenous descent
Mestizos
What is the Hacienda System?
Represents large-scale plantations focused on commercial goods, produced cash crops and employed WAGE laborers (or workers bound by debt)
What was The Glorious Revolution? What religion did it strengthen?
Replaced King James with William and Mary as the next royal rulers in the UK, cemented Protestantism in England
Caused by the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, this term means "the dispersion of Africans out of Africa, creating broader cultures and a shared Creole language"
African Diaspora