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The ability to make things happen. It can exist in many forms and be held and used by many different groups.
Power
When they first arrived in the Americas, European colonizers thought they would get rich by getting which commodity? In reality, few territories in the Americas had this valuable natural resource.
Gold
Chinese traders were not very interested in many products being sold by the East India Company. What product did the they begin to grow in Bengal in order to buy tea from China?
Opium
The triangular trade combined which 3 areas of the world?
Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Which monarchs funded (paid for) Columbus' voyage?
Spain. Double points if you say King Ferdinand AND Queen Isabella.
Sets of interacting or interdependent parts that provide structure and order in human, natural and built environments.
System(s)
The settlements built in the Spanish empire that were led by Catholic priests with the stated purpose of converting indigenous people to Christianity.
Missions
Which important trade port/city in Southeast Asia did the Portuguese, Dutch, and British all control for at least 100 years?
Malacca
What region/part of Africa where most slaves sold from?
West Africa (Gulf of Guinea)
Who did Sir Stamford Raffles work for when he negotiated the treaty for British control of Singapore?
The British East India Company.
The process through which individuals or groups from one culture adopt the customs, values, and behaviors of another culture, often leading to a loss of their original cultural identity.
Assimilation
This agreement of 1494 between the Pope and the monarchs of Spain and Portugal divided the world in half granting the Western hemisphere to the Spanish and the Eastern hemisphere to Portugal.
The Treaty of Tordesillas.
The cultivation system was a program of forced labor requiring farmers to devote 20% of their land or 60 days of labor to producing export crops like coffee, sugar, and indigo. Where was the cultivation system put in place?
Dutch East Indies/Indonesia
Name three commodities that were produced primarily by slave labor in the Americas for export to Europe.
Cotton, Tobacco, Sugar, Lumber/Wood, Indigo, Cacao (Chocolate), Coffee, Rice, Gold, Silver.
Where in the Americas did Columbus and his crew build the first European fort and town in the Americas?
The island of Hispaniola (modern Dominican Republic and Haiti)
the act of taking property or other belongings typically by the government. It was common for colonizing powers to claim legal control of land/territory in their colonies.
Hint: Not exploitation
Expropriation
Under this system, Spanish colonizers were granted charters and allowed to demand payment from the “Indios” in gold, crops, or in labour in a certain territory. In return, the Spanish were meant to protect them and instruct them in the Christian faith.
Encomienda
What event led to the British government (British Raj) taking control of the territories held in India from the East India Company?
Revolt of 1857, Indian Rebellion, Sepoy Mutiny
Which part of the Americas received/purchased the greatest number of slaves (approx. 5 million) during the Trans Atlantic Slave trade?
Brazil
Genoa
A legal document that gives the holder a set of rights including to control a certain territory, organize settlements in that area, and have legal control of it.
Charter
This Spanish priest opposed the enslavement or poor treatment of indigenous Americans. This gradually led to some improvement in protecting them from the worst abuses, but inadvertently led to importation of millions of African slaves.
Bartolme de las Cases.
The capital city of the Portuguese territories around the Indian Ocean and Asia known as the Estado da India
What is Goa?
What is the name of the entity/group that had a monopoly on the Slave Trade to the British colonies in the Americas?
The Royal African Company (The Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa)
Name two places other than Singapore where Raffles served as an official?
Penang, Bencoolen (Bengkuru), Java, Malay States, Riau, Lingga, and Johor.