The first to cross the Atlantic Ocean and "discover" new lands
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Marco Polo traveled this land route that increased European interest in Asia
What is the Silk Road?
A favorable balance of trade
What is having more exports than imports?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The largest cultural contributions of Spain to South America
What are the Spanish language and Catholicism?
A Portuguese Explorer who sailed to the Cape of Good Hope
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
The three main goals of the early, European explorers
What are the 3 G's: Gold, Glory & God?
The transport/voyage of enslaved Africans to the American colonies
What was Middle Passage?

What is Europe?
The impact of the Conquistadors on the Aztecs and Incas
What is the destruction of native cultures/societies?
Spanish explorer who established the capital of Lima (in South America)
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
New ships that could travel much faster
What are caravels?
Exchange of plants, animals and disease.
What is the Columbian Exchange?

What is South America?
The largest factor in the decrease of the Native American population
What is disease?
Sailed around the tip of Africa to reach India
Who is Vasco da Gama?
A Portuguese prince who established a school for sailors
Who is Prince Henry (the Navigator)?
The name of the place where raw materials were mined/harvested and sent to Europe to turn into manufacture goods.
What are colonies (the Americas)?

What is Triangular Trade?
Name of the missionaries that converted the native populations to Catholicism
Who are the Jesuits?
The first to circumnavigate the world
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The three factors that helped Cortez conquer the Aztec Empire
What are technology (guns/cannons), allies, and disease?
Name of the entity where wealthy investors shared the cost and profits of overseas exploration
What are joint-stock companies?
The ocean between Europe, Africa and the Americas
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Names of the two forced systems of labor?
What are encomienda and mita?