Age of Exploration

Causes of Exploration

100

The three Gs that represent motives for European exploration.

What are Gold, Glory, and God?

200

This is where technologies like the compass and gunpowder were originally invented.

What is China?

300

Christopher Columbus was looking for a trade route to obtain this commodity from Southeast Asia.

What is spices?

400

This country was the first to kickstart European exploration by establishing trade routes along the western coast of Africa.

What is Portugal?

500

Name of the ship that was developed for long-distance trade across the Atlantic ocean.

What is the caravel?

Economics of Colonization

100

Term for the commerce routes that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

What is Triangular Trade?

200

Theory in which a government protects its country's profits by controlling trade, and prevents its colonies from trading with other countries.

What is mercantilism?

300

Under this economic practice, many investors pool their money together to fund (and hopefully profit from) large trading expeditions.

What is joint-stock company?

400

This joint-stock company waged war in Southeast Asia to get a monopoly on the nutmeg trade.

What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?

500

System in Latin America were indigenous people were required to work for the Spanish for free.

What is the Mita System?

Colonies: North America, Latin America, or West Indes?

100

Tobacco Plantations

What is North America?

200

Sugarcane Plantations

What is the West Indes?

300

Beaver fur

What is North America?

400

Silver mining

What is Latin America?

500

Casta system

What is Latin America?

Atlantic Slave Trade

100

Name for the leg of Triangular Trade that transported enslaved people from Africa to America.

What is the Middle Passage?

200

One kind of abuse that enslaved people were subjected to.

What is: beating, taxing work, being separated from families, bans from speaking their language, etc.?

300

This labor practice was unique to the English Colonies and did not involve slavery.

What is indentured servitude?

400

This is the destination in the Americas that the majority of enslaved people were sent to (name the region OR the places they worked in).

What is West Indies / Caribbean OR sugar plantations?

500

Term for Europeans who sought to end the practice of slavery.

What are abolitionists?

Resistance

100

An example of resistance that involves violence.

What are rebellions, revolts, riots? (Ex: Pueblo Revolts)

200

An example of resistance that impacted economic production.

What is working slower, sabotaging equipment, etc.?

300

An example of cultural syncretism as resistance.

What is religion, language, etc.?

400

Name for escaped slaves in the Caribbean/West Indes.

What are maroons?

500

This group of Europeans sometimes helped indigenous people write political petitions to the Spanish or Portuguese governments.

What are the Jesuits / Catholic Church?