This was the tribe Columbus first encountered in the Caribbean.
What are the Arawak?
100
In 1492, he sailed the ocean blue.
Who is Columbus?
100
The trade of plants, people, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds was known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
100
This was the system that brought Africans to the Americas for slave labor.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
100
This is the name of the era when Europeans and others went searching for new trade routes.
What is the Age of Exploration?
200
He was the ruler of the Aztec Empire when the Spanish arrived in Mexico.
Who is Moctezuma?
200
Vasco da Gama was the first to reach this place by sea.
What is India?
200
Europe, Asia, and Africa make up this.
What is the Old World?
200
This was one of the most important crops grown in the Caribbean for which slaves were used to harvest and process.
What is sugar cane?
200
After the Spanish "discovered" the Americas, many Europeans began this process of moving to and conquering land in the New World.
What is colonization?
300
They were sent by Spain to claim land and make Christians.
Who are the conquistadors?
300
This place was known as a "trading post empire."
What is Portugal?
300
These are two animals that had the most significant impact on the New World.
What are the horse and the ox (or pig)?
300
The failure of this system made the Spanish need to switch their slave labor from Amerindians to Africans.
What is encomienda?
300
These people were born of one parent of European descent and one parent of African descent.
What are mulattos?
400
Negotiated by the Pope, this agreement settled a dispute between Spain and Portugal about who could pursue which lands for colonization.
Who is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
Prince Henry of Portugal helped create these 3 things.
What are the caravel, astrolabe, and magnetic compass?
400
This happened to the biology of humans and plants as a result of the new connections around the globe.
What is less diversity/more similarity?
400
The strip between Africa and the Americas on which boats full of African slaves would travel.
What is the Middle Passage?
400
As the Europeans took over much of the land in the Americas, the children born to two European parents living in the Americas were the start of this new Caribbean culture.
What is creole?
500
His empathy for the Amerindians led him to pass these laws.
Who is Bartolome de las Casas and what are the New Laws?
500
He was the person who set sail to circumnavigate the earth, but he died here.
Who is Magellan and what is the Philippines?
500
These are two different movements of people from the Old World to the New World.
What is slavery and migration (for solving over-crowding)?
500
This was a form of enslavement where the slave masters literally owned their slaves as people do animals.
What is chattel slavery?
500
These people were born of one parent of African descent and one Amerindian parent.