Age of Exploration
This type of ship, with its characteristic lateen sails, let the Portuguese explore down the coast of Africa, into the Indian Ocean, and acquire spices for themselves.
Caravel.
Prior to 1453, Constantinople was the capital of this centuries old empire.
Byzantine/Eastern Roman
This crop led to the Atlantic Slave Trade
Sugar
The Dutch Cape Colony was located at the tip of this continent
Africa
Caroline's house has lots of this kind of pet
Guinea Pigs
This Portuguese explorer got himself killed while on a circumnavigation of the globe for the Spanish.
Magellan.
This 21 year old sultan of the Ottoman Empire captured Constantinople in 1453.
Mehmed II.
This nation imported the most slaves during the history of Atlantic Slave Trade
Brazil
This was the 3 letter acronym of the Dutch East India Company
VOC
What is the name of Lilly's cat that continually stares at us all during class?
Leroy
This Portuguese explorer opened the sea route to India, drawing Noah's eternal ire.
Janissaries
This ex-slave earned his freedom, moved to England, and became a leading abolitionist.
Ottobah Cugoano
The Dutch East India company followed this 2 word business model
Mayday is this kind of dog
Golden retriever
This member of the Portuguese royal family was largely responsible for the Iberian nation to pioneer trans-Oceanic travel
Henry the Navigator
Genoa
In the history of the Atlantic slave trade, this nation carried the most enslaved people, peaking in the 1700s.
Great Britain
Ceylon
This is the number of dogs Jacob has.
Four
This Italian city-state famously did not play well with our Europeans and dominated the spice trade with the East.
Venice
He was the last emperor of the Byzantines
Constantine XI
This historian was the author of your reading on the Atlantic Slave System
David Brion Davis
The Dutch seized this African island to keep it away from rival French and British traders.
Mauritius
What kind of rabbit is Hillary?
White