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Exploration
Columbus
Native Americas
This & That
Globalism
100
What does it mean to circumnavigate?
Travel around the world
100
According to the Queen of Spain, what did Columbus have to spread to any area that he discovered?
Christianity
100
What is the purpose of human/blood sacrifice?
Pleasing the gods in order to make the crops grow, rain fall, etc.
100
What is the main animal used as livestock by the Inca?
Llama
100
Why did Europeans switch to Africans for slavery?
Immune to diseases, knew how to farm, couldn't run away, etc.
200
Which continent has been geographically isolated and is home to numerous species of unique plants and animals?
Australia
200
What is an area taken over for its resources called?
Colony
200
Carving out step-like structures into a mountainous region in order to farm is known as ______________. The Inca used this method in the Andes.
Terrace Farming
200
Where should a trading outpost be located? Why?
By the coast; to send trade items back to the mother country.
200
What three important items are traded from the Americas to the Old World as part of the Columbian Exchange? What three important items are traded from the Old World to the Americas as part of the Columbian Exchange?
Americas to Old World: Corn, Tobacco, Potatoes Old World to Americas: Sugarcane, Livestock, Diseases
300
What did the Portuguese want to establish in India?
Trade Routes
300
Why did Columbus lose his job as governor of the Caribbean?
He was a bad leader and his people were out of control.
300
How were Europeans easily able to wipe out native populations?
Diseases (esp. Smallpox and Influenza).
300
How does a joint-stock company/corporation work? What is capitalism?
People invest in a corporation going overseas to make money. If the company gets rich, then the investors get rich. If the company fails, the investors only lose what they put in...like the lottery. Money-making
300
Which system is described: -Europeans trade guns to Africans. -Africans give slaves to Europeans, who are then sent to America to farm. -Raw materials and other goods are sent from America to Europe.
Triangular Trade
400
Which two countries are the most important for early exploration?
Portugal and Spain
400
List the three continents in the Old World and the four continents in the New World.
Old: Africa, Europe, Asia New: N.America, S.America, Australia, Antartica
400
What are three important innovations of Mesoamerican (Maya and Aztec) civilizations?
Math, Astronomy, Calendars, cities, etc. AWV
400
Name the most important trade item/commodity that each country wanted. Also, what areas in America did each claim: Spain, England, France.
Spain: Gold; Western North, Central, and South America England: Farmable Land; East Coast of North America France: Fur; Canada
400
What is the Middle Passage?
The middle portion of the Triangular Trade system in which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas.
500
What are the 3 Gs? Provide an example for each.
God: conversion Gold: goods, resources, trade, etc. Glory: fame
500
What are the 4 parts to the Encomienda System?
-Keeping natives under control -Converting natives to Christianity -Agriculture -Native American Slavery
500
How did people trade in Mesoamerica?
By specializing in goods (i.e. corn, textiles, jade, feathers, etc.) according to their region and then exchanging items.
500
What are the important cash crops for: -West Indies/Caribbean/Brazil -Mesoamerica -South America
Sugarcane; Corn; Potatoes
500
A mother country forces its colonies to trade with it and give it valuable resources (i.e. food, gold, raw materials, cash crops, etc.). The colonies cannot trade with any other state. This is known as ______________________.
Mercantilism