Columbian Exchange
Europe, Asia, Africa
What is an export?
Goods or resources shipped OUT of the country.
What is the abbreviation for the Dutch East India Company?
VOC
The Triangular Slave Trade involved which three locations?
Europe, West Africa, American colonies
Where did Christopher Columbus believe he arrived in 1492?
Asia
Which of the following is an Old World good? Potato, chocolate, corn, tobacco, cattle.
Cattle
What is the definition of Mercantilism?
The Mother Country owns colonies and requires them to trade with them.
What was the role of the Dutch East India Company?
To protect the country's trade.
The ______ ______ was the leg of the slave trade between West Africa and the American colonies.
Middle Passage
What are the THREE G's?
God, Glory, Gold
What is the definition of Indigenous?
native or originated from their homeland.
Describe the relationship between the Mother Country and the colonies?
The Mother Country holds all of the power over the colonies.
An example of one of the powers of the VOC was to imprison and execute _________.
Convicts.
Assigning a slave to a number is an example of what?
Dehumanization
Who funded explorers to voyage to the New World?
Monarchs
Why did most of the natives perish from colonization?
Disease brought from the Old World.
Was Mercantilism good or bad for European countries?
Good
A new law that only says Nike is allowed to sell shoes is an example of what?
Monopoly
What was the role of the African kings in the slave trade?
African kings sold slaves who they believed to be prisoners and criminals.
What advancement in technology allowed for globalization and colonization?
Ships and navigational tools
The natives could be freed from enslavement, but only if they did what?
Based on what you know about Mercantilism and the Triangular Slave Trade, who do you think received the raw materials and goods the slaves were producing in the Americas?
Europe
Which country founded the VOC?
Netherlands
What is the definition of Diaspora?
The dispersion or spread of a group of people from their homeland.
How did colonists benefit by settling on the Atlantic Coast?