Technology
Improvements in ship building and navigation techniques
New trade from Europe disrupted the trading monopoly of which group of merchants?
Who are Muslim merchants?
What country colonized Brazil?
What main factor contributed to the large increase in slave trade to the Americas?
What is the production of cash crops?
The Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal was legitimized by who?
Who is the Pope?
What pieces of technology aided in the expansion of maritime exploration?
1) compass
2) new sails
3) accurate maps
True/False: Non-Muslims living in the Ottoman Empire were seen as equal status with Muslims
False!
What factor separated social hierarchies in the New World?
What is race?
Why were indigenous groups so effected by the diseases brought from the Old World?
They had never encountered the diseases and had no immunity against them
How did the Spanish typically treat the people who inhabited their conquered lands?
What is violence/genocide? (Be able to name examples. Cortez and Aztecs, Incas and Pizzaro)
True/False: Spain's exploration encouraged surrounding European countries to begin their own expeditions
True!
Brazil was primarily known for what contribution to the triangular trade?
What is sugar?
What are some ways African culture contributed to early America?
1) religious syncretism
2) music
3) new crops
3) oral tradition
How much of a priority was catholic conversions to the Spanish crown during this era?
What is a big priority (reconquista, conversion of natives)
What were some the effects of Atlantic slave trade for the African continent?
1) increased focus on maritime routes
2) increased hostility amongst African groups
3) increased trade of gunpowder/weapons
What were the results of the Maroon Wars?
1) maroon communities were left in peace, if they remained neutral
2) Acknowledge the use of slavery as legitimate
3) Aid with the capture of other runaway slaves
While diseases were spread to the New World, what items were transferred to the Old World?
What are crops/animals?
The decrease in Subsaharan trade routes was most likely caused by what?
What is the increase of maritime trade routes?
What policies did Asian countries introduce to foreign traders?
They restricted foreign trade and adopted isolationist policies.
What effect did increased trade activity have amongst religious beliefs?
It led to the spread and mixing of various religions