Explorers
This Italian-born explorer sought to find a new route to the Indies in behalf of Spain; he ended up finding a New World instead.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This device allowed sailors to always know which direction they were headed in, no longer relying on the sun and stars alone.
What is the compass?
What is Catholicism?
This group of Protestants, seeking to worship God in their own way without persecution from the English government, established a colony at Plymouth in Massachusetts in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
These two regions imported the majority of enslaved people from Africa.
What are Brazil and the Caribbean?
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe; or he would have been, had he not been killed in combat with tribes native to the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
Europeans gained access to new crops like maize, potatoes, pumpkins, and more, while the Americas received European crops and livestock, as well as sugar and the slaves to grow and harvest it, as part of this trade phenomenon.
In order to make sure that the crown got its fair share of New World wealth, the Spanish king appointed these to act in his stead.
What are Viceroys?
This region of North America was discovered by Juan Ponce de Leon and given a name having to do with the Easter season.
What is Florida?
The second part of the Triangular Trade routes that brought enslaved people to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
Known for his brutal methods, this Portuguese explorer was the first European to sail all the way around Africa and north to India, establishing Portugal's presence in the world-famous Spice Trade.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
Expanded trade and overseas empire-building led to the growth of these two economic systems in Europe.
What are Mercantilism and Capitalism?
The highest social class in New Spain, including those who were born in Spain itself.
What are Peninsulares?
The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed between these two countries, divided up the non-European world between them by order of the pope.
What are Spain and Portugal?
The leading cause of death for newly enslaved people being shipped to the Americas, a result of poor sanitation and the practice of "tight packing."
What was disease?
Hernan Cortez, the Spanish conquistador, was responsible for conquering this Mesoamerican empire with the help of other tribes that were eager to see an end to their human sacrifices.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This innovation, developed by Gerardus Mercator, improved sailors ability to navigate coastlines, even if it distorted the shapes of the far northern and southern parts of the globe.
What is the Mercator Projection/Mercator Map?
What is privateering?
This colony, established in the northern part of North America by Samuel de Champlain, was eventually taken over by the British after the Seven Years' War. Many of the inhabitants were forced to move south to the Louisiana Territory.
What was New France?
Increased demand for these crops is often attributed to the following increase in demand for slaves to grow them.
What are cotton, sugar, and tobacco? (2 of three)
This Spanish explorer was the first to recognize that the New World was, in fact, New. As a result, it was named for him.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
As a result of the Columbian exchange, Native American tribes in certain areas adopted these animals and used them for hunting and transport.
What are horses?
Increases in the amount of money in circulation, thanks to New World gold, as well as greater demand for goods, led to this economic condition in Europe, with prices climbing higher and higher.
What is inflation?
This Dutch colony, while not as large or as nice as the English colonies of its time, would grow into one of the largest cities in the United States today, New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
The origin of the word 'slave', this eastern European ethnic group had been captured and sold as slaves by their neighbors for centuries.
Who are the Slavs?