Explorers
This Portuguese explorer is the first one to find a maritime route to India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The Age of Exploration was caused and gained attraction due to these 5 reasons.
What is: Lure of trade with Asia, Mercantilism, Spread of Christianity, Individual Reasons (religious/claim to riches), and better naval technologies?
The journey that enslaved Africans were forced to take from Africa to the American colonies was called...
What is the Middle Passage?
Spanish conquistadors established these systems to use the Native population, then enslaved Africans, to produce goods to be sold and for sustenance for them. (Need both)
What are the Encomienda and Hacienda Systems?
This is the idea that a state's power is based upon their wealth and therefore how much gold and silver they have. As a result, countries want to export more goods than they import.
What is Mercantalism?
Although himself died on the journey, this explorer is credited with being the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is the major transfer of goods, plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Christian movement spread throughout the continent of Africa and was seen as a distinctly African version of Christianity where Jesus is a Black Man and the Holy Land is the Kongo?
What is the Antonian Movement?
This treaty splits the non-Christian world between Spain and Portugal, but is heavily ignored once other European powers begin to explore the New World.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
These were used by the English and Dutch and was where private investors would give money to increase the exploration and trading efforts in India and the Spice Islands in return for a share in the profits.
What are Joint-Stock Companies?
This explorer sailed for the Dutch and discovered New Amsterdam in North America, however, this colony was later taken over by the English?
Who is Henry Hudson?
The worst thing exchanged on the the Columbian Exchange is...
What is diseases?
After losing relations with the Kingdom of the Kongo, Portugal then made a slave trade relationship with this kingdom.
What is The Kingdom of Ndongo?
Based upon the multicultural/racial developments in the Spanish colonies, these groups are seen as below Europeans, but above African slaves and the indigenous populations. (3 groups)
What are the Mestizos (European and Native descent), Mulattoes (European and African descent), and Zambos (Native and African descent)?
One positive effects of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is the spreading of African culture throughout the world. This is known as...
What is the African Diaspora?
This English explorer explored the west coast of North America in the 16th century while circumnavigating the globe.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
These countries mainly settled in North America, meanwhile these countries mainly settled in Latin America.
What is: North America - England, France, Netherlands. Latin America - Spain, Portugal?
The population in Africa changed during the time of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in these two ways.
What is: Population in the continent increased due to the introduction of new foods from the Americas and there was a gender-imbalance in some regions of the continent?
Due to the use of joint-stock companies, England established themselves as the main controllers of trade in ______, while the Dutch did so in _______
What are India for the English and Indonesia for the Dutch?
This English explorer went on three voyages into the Pacific Ocean charting Australia, New Zealand, and many Polynesian islands where he stayed and studied the culture there.
Who is James Cook?
These are different colonies established along the coasts of countries or in island nations in order to control the trade of a particular good in a region of the world.
What are Trading Post Empires?
In terms of politics and economics, kingdoms in Africa were affected by the slave trade in these ways.
What is: Politics: Africa becomes more violent due to the constant supply of gunpowder weapons and slave raids. Economics: Some African states gain wealth from the slave trade, but they suffer drastically once it is outlawed and ends?
Due to the silver mining in the Americas along with other factors, the Commercial Revolution began which is...
What is the transformation to a trade-based economy using gold and silver?
The only successful slave revolt in history occurred on this Caribbean island Nation.
What is St. Domingue or Haiti?