The Age of Exploration
Name the three Gs that motivated European Exploration
God, Gold, Glory
On an early Portuguese visitor to this country, traders were denied entry, had some of their ships sunk, and numerous sailors were publicly executed.
China
Name at least three plants/fruits/vegetables that traveled from Old World to New during the Columbian Exchange.
Rice, coffee, sugar, wheat, onion, garlic
The idea of the Triangular Trade might involve a single ship making stops in _____, _____, and _____ .
Europe, Africa, and the Americas (can be more specific but should fit those categories)
This is the only country in the New World whose official language is Portuguese
Brazil
An astrolabe is used for calculating...
Latitude
In what is today Bolivia, Spanish colonizers forced the Quechua people to work at Potosi producing _____ .
Silver
Name at least three plants/fruits/vegetables that traveled from New World to Old in the Columbian Exchange
Potatoes, tomatoes, avocados, corn, squash, etc.
Name two forms of forced labor that European empires used in the Americas before relying heavily on African enslaved people.
Indigenous enslavement, indentured servitude
This country has the largest number of citizens that speak an indigenous American language.
Mexico (around 7 million!)
This Chinese explorer sailed as far as East Africa in the 15th century, at the same time that the Portuguese were exploring Africa's Western coast.
Zheng He
On this Caribbean Island, Columbus's home base, there were virtually no indigenous Arawak people remaining by 1650.
Hispaniola (Haiti and/or the Dominican Republic also works)
The New World didn't have many animals that could be domesticated, but these cute and wooly mammals, similar in size to a donkey or pony were an exception.
Llamas and/or Alpacas
Caribbean Islands like Hispaniola (Haiti and the Domincan Republic), Cuba, and Jamaica heavily exploited the plantation-slave system to produce this crop.
Sugar, sugarcane
This is the only country in the Americas with English and French as its two official languages.
Canada
This agreement between Spain and Portugal agreed to split the Earth in half, giving each a hemisphere to conduct trade, exploration, and colonization.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
Bennelong and Yemmerrawanne
This was the most devastating Old World disease to spread in the New World.
Smallpox
Name two examples of African influence on New World societies (be specific, not just music but a specific genre, for example)
Okra in the American South, jazz blues hip hop, Santeria, Hatian Creole, etc.
This is the smallest Spanish-speaking country (by population) in the New World.
Uruguay
Which colonial power set up colonies like New Amsterdam (later New York), St. Maarten and Aruba in the Caribbean, and Batavia (now Jakarta), and ruled through a powerful company with the logo VOC?
The Netherlands or the Dutch
Early Portuguese visitors to the Kongo were partially motivated by the quest for this mythical Christian figure.
Prester John
This Old World country became too reliant on potatoes, and suffered a devastating famine in the 19th century when the crop was hit by a "blight".
Ireland
Around 40% of enslaved Africans ended up in this South American country.
Brazil
This is the only country in South America where English is the predominant language.
Guyana