Europe
This European nation colonized parts of North America, including the thirteen colonies that would eventually become the United States.
What is Britain?
These TWO European countries colonized the majority of Latin America.
What are Spain and Portugal?
Under the Japanese feudal system, these warriors enforced the will of the daimyo and inflicted brutal force upon the peasants.
What were the samurai?
This term describes people who were forcibly taken from their homes in West Africa and forced to perform brutal physical labor in the European colonies.
What are slaves?
The empires of West Asia all followed this religion.
What is Islam?
European colonizers usually forced the indigenous people of the lands they invaded to convert to this religion.
What is Christianity?
The majority of the colony of New Spain is this country today.
The region referred to as "East Asia" primarily consists of these THREE countries.
What are China, Korea, and Japan?
"Asantahene" was what the rulers of this empire were called.
What was the Ashanti Empire?
As a result of their technologically advanced weaponry, the Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires are sometimes referred to as this.
What are gunpowder empires?
This European power focused its colonial efforts on Canada.
What is France?
This was the key difference between the peninsulares, who were at the top of the social ladder in the Spanish colonies, and the mestizos, who were below them.
What is the peninsulares being born in Spain?
This dynasty ruled China during the 1700s.
What was the Qing Dynasty?
This was the dreaded route from Africa to the Americas, during which slaves were packed onto ships and subjected to cruel and inhumane conditions.
What was the Middle Passage?
One of the largest empires in history, with its capital in Constantinople (Istanbul today).
What was the Ottoman Empire?
This European power was much more tolerant of other cultures and religions than the others.
Who were the Dutch?
This is how the region known as "Latin America" got its name.
What is the fact that Spanish and Portuguese are spoken there?
The Tokugawa clan ruled Japan as one of these in the 1700s- a form of government in which the leader of the military is in charge.
What is a shogunate?
The "triangle trade" system followed this route.
What was West Africa to the Americas to Europe?
The Mughal Empire primarily ruled over this modern day country.
What is India?
This man advocated for the Native Americans of Hispaniola, and spread word of the evils that were being committed in the Spanish colonies.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
In 1700, Latin America was divided into these FIVE colonies that had been founded by Spain and Portugal.
What were New Spain, New Granada, Peru, Rio de la Plata, and Brazil?
This kingdom ruled Korea in the 1700s.
What was the Kingdom of Joseon?
This empire was founded by the Yoruba people.
What was the Oyo Empire?
Unlike the Ottomans and the Mughals, the Safavid Empire (modern-day Iran) followed this form of Islam.
What is Shia Islam?