Christopher Columbus and Ferdinand Magellan sailed for what country?
What is Spain
100
How did the enslavement of 10-15 million Africans affect African families and tribes?
What is the depopulation of West Africa (men and older boys)
100
What 3 basic categories or things did the Old World and New World Exchange?
What are plants, animals, and diseases
200
To send a product or service for sale to another country.
What is an export
200
Improvements to these allowed explorers to travel and explore faster and more efficiently.
What is sailing ships
200
Which Spanish explorer conquered the Aztec? And what was the name of the Aztec monarch?
Who are Hernan Cortes and Montezuma.
200
Which country took control over Brazil?
What is Portugal
200
According to Mercantilism, a country was supposed to ___________ more than it __________ to increase their wealth.
What is sell/export, bought/imported
300
A settlement of people living in a new area, linked to the parent country by trade and direct government.
What is a colony.
300
Some Europeans wanted to spread their _____________ and convert _____________ _________ to _____________.
What is religion, indigenous people, Christianity
300
3 rival countried of Spain and Portugal.
What is England, Netherlands (Dutch), and France
300
How did Mercantilism influence European expansion into Africa?
What is the search and trading of gold and silver (wealth)
300
Slaves from Africa were obtained by Europeans in what 2 ways?
What is trade (buying) and force/kidnapping
400
Economic theory/belief that held the prosperity of a nation depended on bullion.
What is Mercantilism
400
These 2 inventions and better understanding in these 2 areas of sea travel supported European explorers.
What is astrolabe, compass, knowledge of wind patterns, and map-making.
400
Who was the Portuguese explorer who sailed around the tip of Africa to the coast of India and took over their spice trade?
Who is Vasco de Gama
400
How did expansion effect African tribes and communities (not population).
What is increased warfare and regression of culture
400
List 4 things brought from the Old World and taken to the New World.
What is Miss Boettcher has the possible answers :)
500
Forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage
500
Europeans wanted to increase their wealth through trade with these 2 trade-able goods.
What are spices and precious metals
500
3 factors that helped the Spanish conquer the Aztec & Inca.
What is military/technology, disease, and local alliances
500
Europeans needed slaves because of these 2 factors or reasons.
What is labor intensive sugar plantations and a decrease in Native American population
500
Describe the 3 sides of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is Europeans took weapons and goods to Africa and traded for enslaved Africans which were taken to the West Indies and the Colonies for work. Raw materials were taken from the colonies and shipped back to Europe.