Technology
This tool allowed sailors to determine direction at sea.
What is the compass?
This phrase summarizes the main motivations for exploration. (HINT: 3 G's)
What is Gold, God, and Glory?
This crop from the Americas boosted the population in Europe and Asia.
What are potatoes? (or maize)
This empire focused on trading posts instead of large colonies.
What is Portugal?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is triangular trade?
This system organized people by race in Spanish colonies.
What is the Casta system?
This device used stars to determine latitude.
What is the astrolabe?
This economic system linked wealth to accumulation of gold and trade control.
What is mercantilism?
This animal transformed Native American life.
What are horses?
This empire conquered the Aztec and Inca.
What is Spain?
This system treated people as property.
What is chattel slavery?
This Ottoman system allowed religious groups autonomy.
What is the millet system?
This ship type was fast and ideal for exploration.
What is the caravel?
This treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This was the MOST devastating effect on Indigenous populations.
What is disease (smallpox)?
This company dominated Dutch trade in Asia.
What is the VOC (Dutch East India Company)?
his Spanish system forced Indigenous labor.
What is encomienda?
This rebellion pushed Spain out of New Mexico temporarily.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This sailing technique used wind patterns to return to Europe.
What is the Volta do Mar?
This explorer opened the Americas to European colonization.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This was the major labor shift caused by population loss.
What is the rise of African slavery?
This was a major reason European empires expanded.
What is access to trade and wealth?
This resource from the Americas was sent to China.
What is silver?
These communities were formed by escaped enslaved people.
What are Maroon societies?
This was the MOST important overall impact of maritime technology.
What is enabling global exploration and trade?
This was the main economic goal of exploration.
What is gaining direct access to trade routes and wealth?
This was the biggest long-term global effect
What is population growth in Afro-Eurasia?
This was the key difference between Asia and the Americas.
What is trade in Asia vs colonization in the Americas?
This was the MOST important economic effect of global trade.
What is increased global economic integration?
This was the MOST common cause of rebellion.
What is oppression (taxes, land loss, or forced labor)?