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Indian Ocean Trade
The New World
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The Slave Trade
Geography
100

Define 'Trading Post Empire' 

Control of ports and trade, rather than large areas of territory. 


100

What was the Inter Caetera? Who was it from?

Papal Bull (from Pope Alexander VI) signed in 1493 giving rights to Spain over lands West of a specified meridian, and for Portugal East of said meridian. 

This gave Portugal Brazil.

The Bull also charged all Christian nations to convert natives to Christianity. 

100

What was the Reqonquista? (Who, what, where and roughly when)

A series of military and cultural campaigns by Northern Christians against Muslim-ruled al-Andalus, which had previously been part of the Visigothic Kingdom before the Muslim Conquest of 711.

During and after the Reqonquista, the Inquisition began, where muslims and jews were forcibly converted to Christianity

100

Cape Coast Castle was controlled by what European power? 

Sweden, Denmark, the Dutch, and finally, England (all at different times)

100

Name one port where silver was transported by the Spanish from the Americas to Asia?

Lima, Acapulco, Panama, or Manila

200

How did the role of women in society change through the expansion of the Indian Ocean Trade?

"Women who had played major roles such as ritual specialists, healers, and mid-wives were now displaced by Spanish Priests"


200

Name 2 indigenous ethno-linguistic groups that resisted European colonization in the New World.


Inkas

Aztecs

Mayans

Caxcanes

Tainos



200

What was the 'classificatory dilemma' according to Dr. Green-Mercado?

While Conversos and Moriscos were technically Christian, Chistianos viejos did not want to accept them as equals 
200

Name two impacts the slave trade had on West African societies. 

For example: Depopulation, Generational Trauma, Economic stagnation, created a power vacuum

among others

200

Name one island referred to as "a school for the colonizers"

The Canaries

Madeira

Sao Tomé

OR Cyprus

300

What was the VOC?

The Dutch East India Company

300

Name 3 American crops that were brought to the Europe/Asia/the World via the Columbian Exchange 

Potatoes, Sweet potatoes, Vanilla, Avocados, Tobacco, Pumpkins, Squash, Cacao beans, Pineapple, Beans, Corn, Tomatoes, Peanuts, Cassava, Peppers, Quinine

300

What were the pogroms?

Violent anti-Jewish riots. Many took place in Spain during the Inquisition and later on in Russia and Germany

300
According to Strayer and Nelson, to what region of the new world were African enslaved people most commonly taken?
South America / Brazil
300

In what modern country is Cape Coast Castle Located?

Ghana

400

Name 2 reasons why the Portuguese wanted to find a direct sea route to India in the 15th century?

- Desire for spices and silks

- Venice controlled the mediterranean, and the Ottomans (later on) controlled the Middle East. Both groups charged taxes on trade goods.

- Spread Christianity

400

Why did Ming China decide to make silver coinage their currency?

They had used paper money previously, which was mismanaged and led to rampant inflation 


+ 

Silver was economically stable (at first)

400

What was a 'Coyote' according to the Casta paintings?

Mestizo + Indian (25% Spanish, 75% Indian)

400

What was the name used to describe enslaved people who escaped and formed independent communities in the Caribbean and South America

Example: The Esmeraldas were one of these

Maroons

400

What was the capital of Al-Andalus in the year 1000 AD?

Córdoba

500

What were the names of the two Spanish Kingdoms which united to become Spain in the 15th century?

Aragon and Castile

500
What is the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)?

Kinshasa