Economic Impacts
A new system of economics developed in the 1450-1750 time period where colonies sold raw materials only to their motherland countries and only bought the processed goods back from the motherland countries.
What is Mercantilism?
A social structure that formed in the Spanish controlled Americas.
What is the Casta system?
A biological transfer that occured between Europe and the Americas
What is the Columbian Excange?
A triangular sail that allowed for traversal upwind.
What is a lateen sail?
A trade route that formed between the Americas, Europe, and Africa. (Also known as the triangle trade)
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
A social class of people in the Americas who were ethnically European but were born in the Americas.
What were Creoles?
Crops introduced to Eurasia from the Americas.
What is corn, potatoes, tomatoes and tobacco.
Devices that helped significantly with sea navigation using the stars and magnetic fields.
What are atrolabes and magnetic compases?
When an empire controls and area by building small fortified cities. (Hint: Portugal did this in the Indian ocean trade network)
What is a Trading Post Empire?
A new type of slavery that was dehumanizing, hereditary, and racialized.
What was Chattel slavery?
A huge decline in Native American populations due to European diseases.
What is the Great Dying?
An agricultural advancement developed during this time where different crops are planted from year to year to retain soil integrity.
What is crop rotation?
Created a global market by establishing a commonly desired currency. (Hint: Think China's tax)
What is silver?
A Spanish system adopted from the Inca, "Mit'a" system that forced indigenous people to do labor for the settlers.
What is the Encomienda?
Ranch animals that were introduced to the Americas by Europeans, eventually causing a loss in biodiversity.
What are horses, cattle, sheep, goats and pigs?
A highly maneuverable, lightweight, armed ship that was developed in the 1450-1750 time period.
What is a caravel?
All five maritime empires that had a major impact on transoceanic interconnections.
What were the Spanish, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the French, and the British?
A system that the Spanish used to control Indigenous Americans that used economic entrapment.
What is the Hacienda system?
A huge environmental impact caused by the rapid expansion of European settlers creating plantations and ranches.
What is deforestation?
A business owned by its investors, with each investor owning a share of the company. This decreases the risk for each individual investor if the business fails.
What are joint stock companies?