Columbian Exchange
What was the disadvantage of the Columbian Exchange?
Disease, slavery of Native Americans and Africans, and death
What is the staple crop that was cultivated and harvested in the Americas?
Which region was it cultivated and harvested in?
What is corn?
What Mexico and Central America?
An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing the position of the stars and planets
What is astrolabe?
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
Who is Columbus?
Which diseases were brought to the New World?
Measles, Syphillus, Influenza, and Small pox
Which Meso Americans civilizations began to harvest maize?
What is Olmecs and Mayans?
An instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.
What is compass?
Which two European nations became world empires first?
What is Spain and Portugal?
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.
What is Columbian Exchange?
Name of the trading center that brought Native Americans together for politics, religions, and commerce.
What is Cahokia?
This along with triangular lateen sails made ships like the caravel more maneuverable and able to hold more cargo
What is stern post rudder?
A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's profits and debts.
What is joint stock company?
Which continents were involved in the Columbian exchange?
Europe, Africa, North and South America
The unification of these nations brought an end to inter-tribal conflict and established a constitution to govern and maintain unity within the region.
What is Iroquois Confederacy?
Maps with lines radiating from compasses that showed routes to important ports
What is Portolan maps?
The three main reasons for the European age of exploration
What is God, Glory, and Gold?
What were the benefits of the Columbian Exchange?
Job opportunities for Europeans, access to raw materials, establish colonies, and control trade market
Where are Native Americans from originally?
What is Kazakhstan, Siberia, Russia and North and East Asia?
Slender, long-hulled vessels utilized by Portuguese; highly maneuverable and able to sail against the wind; key to development of Portuguese trade empire in Asia.
What is Caravels?
It gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work. In exchange, these settlers were supposed to protect the Native American people and convert them to Christianity
What is Encomienda system?