Technology
This sailing technology allowed explorers to more efficiently harness the power of the wind.
What is the lateen sail?
This empire dominated the Indian Ocean trading posts before falling to the British.
What is Portugal?
Italian explorer who was hired by the Spanish monarchy to find a route to Asia. He mistakenly believed he had landed in India.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The slave actually started in this ocean, not the Atlantic.
What is the Indian Ocean?
The movement of plants, animals, and disease between the Old World and the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This navigational device from China harnessed the power of the Earth's magnetic field.
What is the compass?
Trading companies that limited risk for investors.
What are joint-stock companies?
Rather than getting rich from gold, the Spanish extracted this material with the help of mercury to build their wealth and power.
What is silver?
Name for the trade route that connected Africa to the Americas and Europe.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This disease, brought to the Americas by Europeans, devastated native populations.
What is smallpox?
A navigational device that used a map of the stars to determine latitude and longitude.
What is an astrolabe?
Not an actual explorer, but Portuguese Prince credited with exploring the west coast of Africa.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Social hierarchy used by the Spanish in their American colonies based on racial background.
What is the Casta system?
The name for the route of travel between Africa and the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
What the Spanish searching for in the New World.
What is God, gold, and glory?
Improvements in this map-making skill allowed for greater exploration.
What is cartography?
The major competitor of the Dutch East India Co.
What is the British East India Co.?
Labor system used by Spain and Portugal in their American colonies. The original idea came from the Inca.
What is the mita system?
This African kingdom initially flourished as part of the slave trade with Portugal. They eventually fell due to competition with other trading kingdoms.
What is Kongo?
This treaty from 1494 divided the world between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Mounted to the rear of ships, this allowed for greater maneuverability.
What is the stern-post rudder?
Portuguese trading license that was issued to foreign merchants in the Indian Ocean.
What is a cartaz?
Name two popular labor systems utilized in the colonization of the Americas.
What are chattel slavery and indentured servitude?
This crop, grown in the Caribbean, fueled the transatlantic slave trade.
What is sugar?
First explorer to successfully round the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?