AP World Unit 4 Jeopardy

Voyages & Explorers

100

This Portuguese prince sponsored early exploration along the African coast.

Henry the Navigator

200

This explorer’s 1492 voyage connected Europe and the Americas.

Christopher Columbus

300

This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe (his crew finished it).

Ferdinand Magellan

400

This Portuguese explorer reached India by sailing around Africa.

Vasco Da Gama

500

This empire dominated Indian Ocean trade before European arrival.

Ottoman Empire

Columbian Exchange

100

This deadly disease devastated Indigenous populations in the Americas.

Smallpox

200

These crops from the Americas increased population growth in Europe.

Potatoes and Corn

300

This system exchanged plants, animals, people, and diseases across oceans.

Columbian Exchange

400

These animals transformed Native American societies in the Great Plains.

Horses

500

This crop from the Americas became a major export for plantation economies.

Sugar

Maritime Empires

100

This empire controlled much of Central and South America.

Spanish Empire

200

This small European country dominated the spice trade in the 1600s.

Netherlands

300

This empire focused more on trade than colonization.

The Dutch Empire

400

This empire used the encomienda system in the Americas.

Spain

500

This Asian power limited European trade to one port at Nagasaki.

Tokugawa Shogunate

Economic Systems

100

This economic system emphasized accumulating wealth through trade. (Maximize exports and minimize imports)

Mercantilism

200

This labor system forced Indigenous people to work for Spanish settlers.

Encomienda system

300

This trade route exchanged slaves, sugar, and manufactured goods.

Triangular Trade

400

This labor system replaced Indigenous labor on plantations. (Slaves are now property)

Chattel Slavery

500

This joint-stock company helped the Dutch dominate Asian trade.

The Dutch East India Company (VOC)

Social and Cultural Effects

100

This religion spread widely to the Americas through colonization.

Christianity

200

Name of the brutal six week voyage African slaves would take over the Atlantic

Middle Passage

300

This process blended Christianity with other religions in order to make conversion more appealing

Religious Syncretism

400

This process blended African, Indigenous, and European cultures.

Cultural Syncretism

500

This demographic shift resulted from forced migration across the Atlantic.

African diaspora (movement)