Colonization
This is the process of settling among and establishing control over indigenous people?
What is Colonization
This was the worldwide redistribution of plants and animals between the East and West?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
This was the voyage that brought Africans to the Americas as slaves
What was the Middle Passage
These were the three regions involved in the Triangular Trade
What were Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
This economic theory was used to increase a country's power through trade
What was mercantilism?
This is a term for the original settlers of a region
What is a Indigenous, First Peoples, or Native Peoples?
Name one item traded from the New World to the Old World.
Answers checked by Teacher: vanilla, chocolate, potatoes, tomatoes, corn, turkey, etc.
This percentage of enslaved Africans died during the Middle Passage
What was 15%
This was one good traded from Europe to Africa.
What was; rum, cloth, weapons, tools, iron, copper, beads, cowry shells, tobacco, pottery, glass, metal cookware
How did mercantilism affect colonial economies?
What was limiting economic growth of colonial businesses, colonial dependence on the 'mother' country, high inflation and taxes, slave trade, friction between the colonists and mother country
This system required natives to work for protection and education
What was the encomienda system?
This was an item brought from the Old World to the New World?
Answer checked by teacher: diseases, cattle, pigs, horses, coffee, sugar, wheat
Name one reason for the decline in the Native population due to colonization
What was: diseases, harsh working conditions under slavery, tribal warfare, famine
This was transported from Africa to the Americas?
What were enslaved people?
This was a role that colonies play in a mercantilist system?
They were new markets for goods produced by the colonial 'mother' country
This agreement divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Name a disease exchanged during the Columbian Exchange
This was a significant consequence of the Middle Passage for African communities
severe disruption and devastation of their populations, social and economic instability, weakened communities, and a lasting trauma from the forced separation of families and cultural disruption; communities left vulnerable to further exploitation and colonization as a result of the slave trade.
This was one of the main crop traded from the Americas to Europe
What was corn (maize)? Also acceptable:potatoes, tobacco, sugar, cotton, rice, indigo, and molasses
The exchange of plants, animals, and disease from the East to the West and West to East, was named after this man
Who was Christopher Columbus
This economic system focused on increasing a country’s wealth by reducing the cost of imports and increasing exports
What was Mercantilism?
This was a positive effect of the Columbian Exchange.
EX: New foods introduced to Europe, Africa, and Asia increased their populations; Increase population health (mortality rate decrease), new crops introduced to the New World thrived (coffee, wheat, sugar, rice)= increased global food production;
This group often took in and protected slaves who were able to escape
Who were Native Americans?
Explain how the Triangular Trade impacted global economies.
What was economic growth in europe, African depopulation and societal disruption, the rise of colonial powers, the rise of the mercantilism system
True or False: Mercantilism relies on a nation INCREASING their Imports and DECREASING their Exports
False: Decreased imports and Increased Exports