MARITIME EXPLORATION
COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE
TRADE NETWORKS
COLONIAL AMERICAS
AFRICA & SLAVERY
200

This Portuguese device helped sailors determine latitude at sea.


Answer: What is an astrolabe?

200

This American crop became a staple food in Europe and Africa.

Answer: What is maize/corn?

200

This Asian product was the most valuable European import from the East.

Answer: What are spices?

200

This crop was grown on plantations in Brazil using enslaved labor.

Answer: What is sugar?

200

This African kingdom controlled the gold trade with Europeans.

Answer: What is Songhai?

400

This Portuguese explorer reached India by sailing around Africa in 1498.

Answer: Who is Vasco da Gama?

400

This European animal transformed Native American warfare and hunting.

Answer: What is the horse?

400

This commodity was mined in Potosí and shipped to both Europe and Asia.

Answer: What is silver?

400

This Spanish labor system forced Native Americans to work in mines.

Answer: What is the mita system?

400

This system of slavery moved millions of Africans to the Americas.

Answer: What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?

600

The agreement by the Pope and the kings of Spain and Portugal that divided up the “New World.” 

Answer: What is the Treaty of Tordesillas

600

This American plant became crucial to the African slave trade as a food crop.

Answer: What is manioc/cassava?

600

The Spanish established this trading port to trade directly with China..

Answer: What is Manilla or the Philippines

600

These Spanish colonial administrators represented royal authority.

Answer: Who are viceroys?

600

This Portuguese colony in Africa became crucial for the slave trade.

Answer: What is Angola?

800

This technological innovation helped prevent scurvy on long voyages.


Answer: What is the preservation of citrus fruits/vitamin C?

800

This Old World crop transformed Chinese agriculture and population growth.

Answer: What are sweet potatoes?

800

This trade pattern connected Africa, the Americas, and Europe.

Answer: What is the Triangle Trade?

800

This social hierarchy in Spanish colonies was based on racial ancestry.

Answer: What is the casta system?

800

This form of resistance by enslaved people involved cultural preservation.

Answer: What is cultural resistance/marriage?

1000

This Chinese admiral led massive treasure fleets across the Indian Ocean.


Answer: Who is Zheng He?

1000

This disease devastated Native American populations after European contact.

Answer: What is smallpox?

1000

This Chinese trade policy restricted European traders to one port city.

Answer: What is the Canton System?

1000

These religious dissenters, seeking to "purify" the Church of England, established the Plymouth Colony in 1620.

Answer: Who are the Pilgrims/Separatists?

1000

These African intermediaries facilitated the slave trade with Europeans.

Answer: Who are African rulers/elites?