Explorers
Sailed for Spain to find a Westward Passage, instead landed in the Caribbean
Christopher Columbus
The first French colony in Africa was built on this island.
Madagascar
These small and speedy ships of the Portuguese helped enable travel along the long Eastward passage
Caravels
Silk Road
Prized trade Goods of Africa
Gold, Ivory, and Slaves
Credited with being the first to theorize Columbus' findings were a "New World"
Amerigo Vespucci
The Spanish territory of the New World was also known as this
New Spain
This new money-making venture relied on investors to fund an expedition, sharing in the returns.
Joint-Stock Trading Company
Mercantilism
The form of slavery used by Europeans in the New World
Chattel Slavery
British and Dutch Explorer who sailed up a New York River and into a Canadian bay before being abandoned in a mutiny.
Henry Hudson
This south Asian peninsula was slowly colonized over hundreds of years by Portugal, England and others
India
This syncretic religion developed in the cultural melting pot created by slavery in Haiti and Louisiana
Voodoo
This contract of trade briefly enabled Portuguese control of the Indian Ocean
Cartaz
This colonial empire is generally considered to have treated the Native Americans best, even welcoming the converted as citizens.
French Empire
A priest who accompanied Columbus, informing the Pope of the brutality of Native Slavery and instead advocating for African Slavery.
Bartolome De Las Casas
This document divided the colonial territory of Spain and Portugal in East Asia
The largest fleet Europe had ever seen, developed by Spain, was sunk by Britain, signalling the decline of one colonial empire and the rise of another.
Armada
This Spanish labor system replaced Native American slavery, borrowing from previous indigenous systems
Encomienda
Alongside valuable spices, textiles, and other commodities, the British engaged in the lucrative trade of this harmful product in Asia
Opium
This explorer-conquerer took down the Inca Empire and claimed much of South America for Spain
Francisco Pizarro
This island discovered by Columbus was home to the Taino people, and is now divided between two nations.
Hispaniola
This medicine treated the deadly malaria which Europeans encountered inland of their destinations.
Quinine
This tribe traded the territory of what is now New York City to the Dutch for a pittance
Algonquin
The name of the mixed French and Native American peoples of the new world
Métis