Exploration 1
European country that was the leader in developing and applying 15th century sailing innovations
What is Portugal?
place Columbus thought he landed when he really landed in the Caribbean
What is India? (Asia)
main economic activity of New France
What is the fur trade?
First European country to import enslaved Africans
What is Spain?
purpose of joint-stock companies of the 1500s and 1600s
What is the creation of colonies?
important development in navigation that could sail against the wind
What is the caravel?
Spanish system that used the natives as slaves on plantations and mines
1st English settlement in the Americas
What is Jamestown?
Route from Africa to the Americas for enslaved Africans
What is the Middle Passage?
transfer of goods like turkeys, corn, and potatoes to Europe and horses, sugarcane, and diseases to the Americas
What is the Colombian Exchange?
1st to sail around the southern tip of Africa
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
Three factors that helped the Spanish defeat the Aztecs
What are superior weapons, help from natives, and diseases?
British settlement in the Americas created by Puritans
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Reason why African slaves were needed for labor in the Americas
What is loss of natives to disease?
Resulted from the financial success in the Americas
What is inflation? (rise in the price of goods)
three main goals of European exploration
What are God, glory, and gold?
Spanish leader that defeated the Inca by ambushing them then kidnapping and murdering their king
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
Located in eastern Canada and the Midwest United States today
What is New France?
Resulted in African kingdoms losing their fittest member, and families were torn apart
What is the African slave trade?
when a country sells more goods than it buys from other countries
What is a favorable balance of trade?
Where Portugal was trying to get by exploring the western coast of Africa
What is Asia?
Descendants of Spanish colonists and Native Americans
What are the mestizo?
War that resulted in Great Britain seizing control of nearly the entire eastern half of North America
What is the French and Indian War?
Item received in Africa in the triangular trade that devastated African societies
What are guns?
economic system based on private ownership of property and the investment of wealth to earn profit
What is capitalism?