Motivation
A major food product that motivated Europeans to seek new trade routes?
Spices
The best term to describe global exchange after 1492.
The Columbian Exchange
This individual governed Spanish colonies for the king.
The Spanish labor system that extracted colonial wealth.
The encomienda system
This religious institution helped spread European beliefs
The Church
The main reason European monarchs supported exploration.
To gain wealth and power
European diseases
The motivation for Spain's centralization of its colonial governments
To maintain control over the colony.
The motivation behind the importation of enslaved humans from Africa.
To meet labor demands for profit and wealth.
Native temples were destroyed for this reason.
To replace native religions with Christian beliefs.
Long trade routes increased prices due to this economic barrier.
Goods passed through many traders.
This aspect of the Columbian Exchange changed global diets.
New crops & animals (food) spread worldwide
Guns, horses & steel
The impact that human trafficking (enslavement) had on Africa.
Population loss & Instability
The ways religion controlled society.
Shaped beliefs and behavior.
To control resources, labor & trade.
This aspect of the Columbian Exchange was helpful and harmful.
The spread of food was good at the expense of human exploitation and death.
The main reasons why native resistance failed.
European military & disease
It was used maintain order and/or control between various groups (races).
A social hierarchy
In addition to religion, Europeans altered indigenous and African societies in the New World through...
Language & schooling