Age of Exploration
This European country sponsored Columbus’s 1492 voyage
Spain
New World crop that became a staple in Europe
What is the potato (or maize)?
European empire that controlled Brazil
What is Portugal?
Forced labor system used by Spain on Indigenous peoples
What is encomienda?
Ocean connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This technology helped sailors determine latitude at sea
What is the astrolabe?
Disease brought to the Americas that devastated Indigenous populations
What is smallpox?
This empire used the encomienda system in the Americas
What is Spain?
Labor system replacing Indigenous labor due to population decline
What is African slavery?
This trade network connected the Americas, Europe, and Africa
What is the Atlantic trading system?
Portuguese explorer who rounded the Cape of Good Hope
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
Animal introduced to the Americas that transformed Native cultures
What is the horse?
Trading company that dominated Indian Ocean commerce
What is the Dutch East India Company (VOC)?
This trade route carried enslaved Africans to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
This silver mine in the Americas fueled global trade
What is Potosí?
This motive for exploration involved spreading Christianity
What is religious conversion (Christianization)?
This term describes the transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This military technology gave Europeans an advantage at sea
What are cannons (or firearms)?
Plantation crop that drove demand for enslaved labor
What is sugar?
Asian luxury good highly desired by Europeans
What is silk (or porcelain or spices)?
This treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This crop increased population growth in China and Europe
What is maize (or potatoes)?
This empire ruled Mughal India during much of Unit 4
What is the Mughal Empire?
This system involved people working to pay off debts
What is indentured servitude?
This empire limited European trade to a single port
What is the Qing Dynasty (Canton System)?