Exploration & Maritime Tech
This triangular sail, used in the Indian Ocean, allowed ships to sail against the wind.
What is the lateen sail?
This disease devastated indigenous American populations after European contact.
What is smallpox?
This treaty divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This economic theory focused on accumulating precious metals and maximizing exports.
What is mercantilism?
This African queen resisted Portuguese influence in Ndongo and Matamba.
Who is Ana Nzinga?
This device, improved by Muslim navigators, measured latitude by the stars.
What is the astrolabe?
This animal, brought by Europeans, transformed hunting for Plains Native Americans.
What is the horse?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This Spanish labor system in Peru modified the Incan labor system for mining silver.
What is the mita system?
This triangular system involved the trade of slaves, sugar, and manufactured goods.
What is the Atlantic system or Triangular Trade?
This 1680 revolt saw Pueblo people temporarily expel the Spanish from New Mexico.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This Portuguese royal sponsored expeditions that advanced maritime exploration.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This Afro-Eurasian crop became a staple in Africa due to its nutritional value.
What is manioc (cassava)?
These were royal administrators in Spanish colonies who ruled in the king’s name.
What are viceroys?
These companies allowed investors to fund voyages while limiting financial risk.
What are joint-stock companies?
These escaped slave communities resisted European colonization, especially in Jamaica.
What are maroon societies?
(DAILY DOUBLE) These small, fast ships developed by the Portuguese were vital for Atlantic exploration.
What are caravels?
(DAILY DOUBLE) These two European nations led early colonization of the Americas.
Who are Spain and Portugal?
This empire fell to Pizarro after the capture and execution of its ruler, Atahualpa.
What is the Inca Empire?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This term describes the global shift from barter to gold/silver currency and large-scale trade.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
This Cossack led a rebellion against Catherine the Great’s rule over serfs.
Who is Yemelyan Pugachev?
This Chinese invention helped sailors maintain direction on the high seas.
What is the magnetic compass?
This system forced indigenous labor in exchange for ‘protection’ and ‘Christianization.’
What is the encomienda system?
This empire fell to Cortes and allied indigenous groups in 1521.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This Dutch company dominated spice trade in Southeast Asia.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
(DAILY DOUBLE) This rebellion ended effective Mughal rule in much of India.
What is the Maratha Rebellion?