Exploration
This Portuguese explorer reached India by sea.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This disease devastated Indigenous Americans.
What is smallpox?
Portugal established trading posts in this region.
What is the Indian Ocean?
This system forcibly moved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?
Despite the growth of Atlantic trade, this older regional trade network in Asia continued to thrive during this period.
What is the Indian Ocean trade network?
Spain sponsored the voyage of this explorer, who reached the Americas.
Who is Columbus?
This crop increased population growth in Europe.
What is the potato?
This empire dominated Atlantic trade.
What is Spain?
This labor system exchanged labor for passage.
What is indentured servitude?
Social hierarchies changed in this region due to race.
What is the Americas?
This ship design improved ocean travel by increasing speed and distance explorers were able to travel.
What is the caravel?
This animal transformed Native American societies.
What is the horse?
This joint-stock company controlled Asian trade.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This plantation crop drove slave demand in South America.
What is sugar?
While global trade expanded dramatically, states continued to rely on this method to generate revenue from their populations.
What is taxation or tribute collection?
This motivation drove European exploration.
What is mercantilism?
This labor system exploited Indigenous workers.
What is encomienda?
This maritime empire began a commercial relationship via the East India Company, with the Mughal Empire in the 17th century.
What is the British empire?
Compare indentured servitude and chattel slavery in the Atlantic world between 1450 and 1750.
What is indentured servitude being temporary and contractual, while chattel slavery was lifelong and hereditary?
Explain one way labor systems changed between 1450 and 1750.
What is chattel slavery, plantation labor, or coerced labor systems in the Americas?
Explain how technology enabled exploration.
What is improved navigation and ships?
Explain a long-term effect of the Columbian Exchange.
What is population shifts or global trade?
Explain how maritime empires maintained power.
What is military force and trade monopolies?
Explain how Indigenous labor systems such as the mit’a were adapted or transformed under European colonial rule.
What is:
- m'ita system changed to coercive mining labor
- encomienda = tribute from indigenous communities
- hacienda= laborers tied to large estates
- increased coercion compared to pre-contact systems
(any answers stated above are acceptable)
Compare pre and post 1450 trade.
What is regional to global trade?