Vocabulary
A faster ship with a large cargo hold designed by the Portuguese.
What is a caravel?
He sailed around the Cape of Good Hope on his way to India.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
This was sent to Africa from Europe.
What are manufactured goods?
The trafficking of enslaved people was a new practice started by Europeans. T or F
What is False?
Attitude + ________ = Outcome
What is Effort?
Triangular sails.
What are lateen sails?
This European explorer believed he could reach Asia by sailing west instead of east.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Europe received this from the Americas.
What are raw materials?
He was the African King of Congo who asked the Portuguese to stop the trading of slaves.
Who is King Afonso?
"He who dares not offend cannot be ______."
What is "honest"?
The exchange of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
While he never circumnavigated the globe, he is credited with being the first to do so.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
These payments were granted by parent governments and used to build new roads, bridges and canals in the New World.
What are subsidies?
Most slaves who were bought in Africa had been captured and sold by this people group.
Who were other Africans?
Albert Einstein was a genius; his brother Frank was this.
What is a monster?
The right of Spanish landowners to use Native Americans as laborers.
What is encomienda?
His letters describing the lands he saw led to the use of the name America for the new world.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
To keep foreign goods out, countries would place these on other country's products.
What are tarriffs?
He was a member of the British Parliament who challenged his own government to abolish slavery.
Who was William Wilberforce?
A Sumo wrestler is called this.
What is a rikishi?
The theory that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
This Venetian explored the coast of New England on behalf of England.
Who is John Cabot?
The planting of this crop in the Americas combined with a small Native American population due to European diseases led to a dramatic need for enslaved Africans.
What is sugar cane?
The Society of Friends condemned slavery in the 1770's. They were also known as this group.
Who are the Quakers?
Sumo: The number of wins in a tournament to earn a kachi-koshi.
What is 8 wins?