Maritime Empires
The primary economic philosophy of European maritime powers, focused on maximizing exports often through colonies is?
Mercantilism
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The global exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technology between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres starting in the late 15th century.
What are the four G's of exploration?
Gold, God, Glory, Gadgets
The highest social class in the Spanish Casta system
Peninsulares
The brutal forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Middle Passage
This British and Dutch economic arrangement allowed private investors to fund large-scale ventures like exploration and colonization, splitting the risk and profit
joint-stock company
This disease, endemic to the Eastern Hemisphere, was the most devastating factor in the demographic collapse of Indigenous American populations.
smallpox
Why did Columbus set sail?
Find a trade route to Asia
Who is the lowest social class in Europe?
Who is the lowest social class in the Americas
Jewish/Muslim People
Enslaved People
The ruler of the Mughal Empire who is famed for his policy of religious toleration?
Akbar the Great
Spanish explorers overthrew what two major American empires in the 16th century
Inca and Aztec Empires
these non-essential, highly profitable goods produced on plantations for European markets are called?
Give two examples of these goods?
Cash Crops
Sugar, Cotton, Coffee
What is one reason that exploration of the Americas started in the late 1400s early 1500s? (Not Motives)
Looking for trade routes
Technology advancements
Kings consolidate power
What are two revolts that were caused because of religion?
Pueblo revolt
The Mughal revolt
What did the Ottomans call their king?
What did the Russians call their king?
Sultan
Tsar/Czar
List 4 examples of technology that allowed Europeans to conquer the New World
Guns
Steel Swords
Horses
Writing
Ships
The Spanish colonial labor system that granted Spanish colonists control over Indigenous people, forcing them to provide tribute and labor.
encomienda system
What 5 European countries controlled land in the New World?
What did those 5 European countries have in common?
France, England, Portugal, Spain, Netherlands
All of them are on the coast
What social hierarchy went away in Europe?
What country still used that hierarchy?
Russia
This disease moved across this trade route and killed much of the worlds population, thanks to what empire?
Name the disease
Name the trade route
Name the empire
Black Death
Silk Road
Mongol Empire
What was the name of the joint-stock company from England that colonized India?
British East India Company
What was the triangular trade?
Crops to Europe
Finished goods like guns to Africa
Enslaved people to the Americas
What is the name of the Spanish Conquistador who took over the Incas
Francisco Pizarro
Where did the Fronde take place?
Where did the Glorious Revolution take place?
France
England
what is the difference between shia and sunni muslims?