Explorers
Economics
Slave Trade
Geography
Miscellaneous
100

Technology which gave European Explorers a sense of direction in the open sea

Compass

100
System which establishes a "favorable balance of trade"

Mercantilism

100

Form of slavery used by Europeans in the New World

Chattel Slavery

100

Middle Eastern Empire which blocked European trade with much of Asia and Africa

Ottoman Empire

100

Fortified coastal settlements which protected colonial interests.

Port!

200

Empire toppled by Francisco Pizarro

Inca

200

Rich territory the Dutch East India Company and Sultanate of Indonesia received after ousting the Portuguese

Spice Islands

200

Large farm-estates fueled by slave labor

Plantations

200

African island colonized by the French 

Madagascar

200
Racial hierarchy unofficially established in New Spain

Castas

300
River valley claimed by Robert de la Salle

Mississippi River Valley

300

A document which ensured a Portuguese trade monopoly in the Arabian sea.

Cartaz!

300

Direct route from Africa to the Americas (part of the Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangle Trade)

Middle Passage

300
South American country given to the Portuguese in the Treaty of Tordesillas

Brazil

300

Term for blending of different cultures, traditions, beliefs, and practices.

Syncretism

400

Explorer who conquered Puerto Rico and Florida for Spain

Ponce de Leon

400

Spanish system of labor following the banning of native slavery, inspired by the Inca.

Encomienda

400

Goods produced in the Americas and Europe which were exchanged for slaves in Africa

Guns and Alcohol (also Iron/Tools and Clothing)

400

Dutch fur trading settlement, known today as New York City

New Amsterdam

400

Syncretic religion formed out of the slave trade in Haiti and the southeastern United States

Voodoo/Vodou/Voudun

500

Joint Stock Trading Company which founded Jamestown

The Virginia Company
500

Narcotic originating in India which was sold to China with devastating results

Opium

500

Slaving ship on which the enslaved revolted and received freedom from the US government

La Amistad

500

East Asian archipelago (series of islands) given to the Spanish in the treaty of Zaragoza

The Philippines

500

The three ways that around 90% of the native American populations were wiped out in the Great Dying

Guns, Germs, and Steel (War, Disease, Displacement)