The unjust treatment of people by others who falsly believe that their race is superior to others.
What is racism?
100
To set a ships course over water.
What is navigation?
100
This Italian explorer excited Europeans in the late 1200s by traveling the Silk Route.
Who is Marco Polo?
100
Countries tried all different types of these in the Americas.
What are settlements?
200
He was the first person to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
Only 11 million of these got to actually set foot in the Americas.
What is enslaved Africans?
200
Used a magnetized needle to determine direction.
What is a compass?
200
This route allowed Europeans to buy spices, silks, and other Asian goods.
What is the Silk Route?
200
Settlements that are ruled by a homeland.
What are colonies?
300
In 1420 this man set up a naval research center on the southwest tip of Portugal.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
300
The African Slave Trade robbed these societies of their people and increased warfare among them.
What are African Societies?
300
These traders introduced the compass to Europe.
What is the Arab traders?
300
In the late 1300s and 1400s these took over the Byzantine Empire, and blocked off Italian merchants from using the trading posts along the black sea.
What are the Ottoman Turks?
300
The three types of settlements.
What are plantation colonies,trading post empires, and colonies.
400
In 1497 this man sailed around Africa.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
400
The enslaved Africans lay chained to spaces 122-153 cm. or this many feet, apart.
What is 4 to 5 feet?
400
A flat movable piece at the rear of a ship that makes it easier to steer.
What is a rudder?
400
The Ottomans forced Italian merchants to trade with them instead, this made the prices for trade even higher because everyone of these (or a person who handled goods) recieved a profit, causing the cost of goods to rise.
What are middlemen?
400
This country had plantation colonies in the West Indies.
What is France?
500
This man discovered the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
500
The forced this of Africans increased the number of people in the colonies of the Americas.
What is forced Migration?
500
This device allowed sailors to use the position of the sun and stars to determine latitude.
What is an astrolabe?
500
Many of these wanted to find a new trade route to Asia.
What are the Europeans?
500
This country had Plantation colonies on the southeastern coast of North America.