Exploration
China and Japan
Building Empires
Economics
Africa
We love exploration
100

Glory, God and Gold were the reasons why Europeans explored, but Ms. Siciliano gave it this nickname.

What is the 3 G's. 

100

Zheng He completed seven voyages, after the seventh one China was taking a different approach.

What is go into Isolation?

100

These were the main causes for the massive population decline of native population in North and South America.

              

What are diseases?

100

This economic activity was common in New France.

             

What is fur trapping/trading.

100

the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.


Atlantic slave trade

100

He founded India!  Wait a minute, no he didn't, this is a whole new world. 

Who is Christopher Columbus?

200

The Portuguese were able to sail to the Indian Ocean for this reason.

Technology/caravel/sails

200

Chinese citizens did not accept the rulers from this dynasty because they were not Chinese.

             

What is the Qing dynasty?

200

Spanish conquistador; from 1519 to 1521, he defeated the Aztec Empire, conquering Mexico for Spain.

Who is Hernan Cortes?

200

Exploitation of labor and natural resources by Europeans was a major result of this economic policy used by Europeans.

              

  What is Mercantilism?

200

the transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americas.


What is triangular trade


200

The governments of Spain and Portugal sponsored overseas exploration for these reasons

What is to get spices from India.

300

Increasing trade, gaining more resources and obtaining labor were all consequences/impacts of Spanish colonization of the Americas.  This consequence/impact was not intentional.

What is diseases?

300

First emperor of the Ming dynasty drove the Mongols out of China, increased rice production, improved irrigation, brought back Confucianism and reinstated the civil service examination. 

Who is Hongwu?

300

Last Incan king; he was taken prisoner by Pizarro after refusing to accept Christianity and surrender his empire to the Spanish conquistadors. The Spanish killed him and took control of his empire.

Who is Atahualpa?

300

an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit.


What is Capitalism?

300

Decrease in population and work force, cultures destroyed, families ripped apart. 

What are consequences of the slave trade?

300

His ship as the first to circumnavigate the world.  

Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

400

This is a brass circle with rings marked off in degrees. The rings are used to sight the stars and the sea, the captain can calculate the latitude to see how far the ship was from the equator. 

What is the astrolab?

400

a type of Japanese drama in which music, dance, and mime are used to present stories.

What is Kabuki?

400

In 1524, he sailed to North America in search of a sea route to the Pacific. While he did not find the route, he did discover what is today New York harbor. (Ms. S used to live near his bridge). 

Who is Giovanni da Verrazzano?

400

a business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits.


What is a Joint stock company. 

400

the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves—so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade.

What is the middle passage?

400

a 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?

500

This instrument shows the direction the wind blows.

what is three 16-point wind rose. 

500

Toyotomi Hideyoshi a Japanese general; served under Oda Nobunaga and succeeded in controlling much—but not all—of Japan by defeating hostile daimyo; his rule cleared the way for this leader to unify the country in 1603.

Tokugawa Ieyasu

500

a group of people who, in 1620, founded the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution in England.

Who are the Pilgrims?

500

an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad.

favorable balance of trade

500

He was an African Slave who recalled the inhumane conditions on his trip from West Africa to the West Indies at the age of 12 in 1762. 

 

Olaudah Equiano

500

The potato caused a decline of famine in China and Ireland. The pig, sheep, and horse changed agriculture and farming in North America because of this.

What is the Columbian Exchange?