Technology / Exploration
These two countries helped start the 'Age of Exploration' and claimed most of the New World for themselves.
What are Spain & Portugal?
For further Review: Who came next?
The trade of this helped the Europeans conquer the Americas more than anything else.
What is disease?
Further Review: Which diseases?
This weapon was the most important when it came to expanding land-based empires.
What is a cannon?
Further Review: Which city's walls were useless against Ottoman cannons?
This is the reason they are called maritime empires.
What is because most of the territory is overseas / they are connected by the ocean?
Further Review: What are the main maritime empires?
This is the casta system term for a person with two Spanish parents who was born in the Americas.
What is a creole?
Further Review: Name the other parts of the casta system.
Early explorers were looking for a route to this place.
What is Asia (India, China, Indies, Japan)?
Further Review: What caused them to look?
An important part of this colonial plantation system was the forced conversion of Native Americans.
What is the Encomienda?
Further Review: What replaced this system?
This Mesoamerican city was the site of ritual sacrifice and cannibalism in the tens of thousands per year.
What is Tenochtitlan?
Further Review: Who ruled Tenochtitlan?
This type of government was popular in Europe (think Louis XIV).
What is absolutism (absolute monarchy).
Extra Review: How did they justify their rule?
This is what happen to Spain's jewish population.
What is they were forcibly converted and/or expelled?
Further Review: Did it happen anywhere else?
The Treaty of Tordesillas did this.
What is split the world between Spain and Portugal?
Further Review: Who made the treaty? And who got what?
In chattel slavery, this is how humans are treated.
What is like cattle / animals / commodities?
Further Review: What is the name for the trade route between Africa and the Americas?
DAILY DOUBLE: This Chinese Dynasty was established by this group of people (two answers).
What is the Qing Dynasty, established by the Manchu?
Further Review: Who did they conquer?
In this system the 'mother country' controls the trade within its colonies.
What is mercantilism?
Further Review: What new economic idea disagreed with this system?
The European Renaissance was a rebirth of this?
What is classical learning (Greek / Roman teachings)?
Further Review: What is humanism?
This type of ship was used by the Portuguese for much of their early exploration.
What are caravels?
For further review: What were the other types of ships?
Goods such as okra and rice were brought to the Americas from which region of the World?
What is Africa?
Further Review: Who brought these goods?
The Safavid Empire became a safe-haven for this religious group.
Who are Shia Muslims?
Further Review: Who was their biggest rival and why?
This is one of the joint-stock companies established to facilitate trade in the newly connected world.
What is the Dutch East India Company / Dutch West India Company / British East India Company?
Further Review: What was a benefit of a joint-stock company?
Vodou was a mixture of this.
What is Christianity and West African beliefs?
Further Review: Where was this most common?
These two events in Spain made the sponsorship of Columbus' journey possible.
What are the union of Spain (Ferdinand & Isabella), and the completion of the Reconquista?
DAILY DOUBLE: Mount Potosi was important to the Spanish for this reason and to the Native Americans for this reason (two answers).
What is the Spanish became rich off of its silver, and the mountain represented Pachamama (earth goddess), then Mary later.
This was the purpose of the Zamindars in the Mughal Empire.
What is tax collection?
Further Review: What system did the Ottomans have? Ming? Mexica?
This female ruler of Ndongo and Matamba successfully resisted Portuguese rule.
Who is Ana Nzinga?
Further Review: What other large and powerful state existed in Central Africa? West Africa?
These were created by runaway slaves on the edges of society, Jamaica had many.
What are maroon societies?
What happen to Jamaica's maroon societies?