The first multinational corporation
What was the East India Company?
Who killed MLK?
who is the CIA?
The columbian exchange.
What is the exchange of animals, goods, and germs from europe to the americas.
A spanish soldier, led the conquest of the americas.
What is a conquistador?
Explorer credited with "discovering" the Americas.
Christopher columbus
A thing grown for the sole purpose of selling for a profit.
What is a cash crop?
Country that lost a war to a large bird.
Australia lost a war to emu's
The triangle trade
What was the exchange of slaves from Africa to the Americas, manufactured goods to Africa, and raw materials to Europe?
The word for going all the way around
What is circumnavigate?
Led the conquest of the inca.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
positive things did the Europeans brought to the Americas.
1. improved steel weapons and firearms
2. improved farming tools and animal driven plows
3. oxen and cows
What unexpected animal did the maya worship?
The maya worshipped turkeys as messengers and stand ins for the gods.
A chartered company
a company formed with special permission from a sovereign.
The part of the triangular trade that transported slaves?
What was the middle passage
Led the conquest of the Aztec.
Who was Hernan Cortes?
A spanish trading ship, heavy and large.
What was a galleon?
Which president was a licensed bartender?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Maritime empire?
What is an empire based on seafaring and multinational trade?
The difference between the profits on exports and expenses on imports
What is balance of trade?
Credited with circumnavigating the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan.
A small lighter boat made by the portugese?
What is a caravel?
What was the Tallest building in 1965?
The gateway arch!
mercantilism
What is the idea that a nations prosperity depended on their supply of gold and silver?
What is the system of labor the Spanish used that allowed them to use natives as laborers?
What is the Encomienda?
ACTUALLY circumnavigated the globe?
Who is Juan Elcano?