Maritime Technology
What technology replaced Chinese junks and facilitated trade?
What is a caravel?
This motive best explains why Europeans explored overseas.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
This plantation crop increased demand for enslaved labor.
What is sugar?
This term describes people of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry in Spanish colonies.
What are Mestizos?
While Western Europe moved away from serfdom, this region intensified the system, binding peasants to the land and making them subject to the will of the nobility.
What is Russian Serfdom?
What technology facilitated the understanding of latitude?
What is an astrolabe?
This was a major motivation for European colonization besides wealth.
What is spreading Christianity?
This disease killed a large portion of Indigenous populations in the Americas
What is smallpox?
This treaty split the non-European world between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This system forced Indigenous labor in Spanish America.
What is the encomienda system?
What technology brought from the Arab world allowed vessels to sail against the wind?
What is the Lateen Sail?
This economic system focused on accumulating gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
This Old World animal transformed transportation and warfare in the Americas.
What are horses?
Tis empire controlled much of coastal trade in the Indian Ocean.
What is the Portuguese Trading Post Empire?
This term describes a labor system where people are treated as legal property, allowing them to be bought, sold, and forced to work forever.
What is Chattel Slavery?
What were the key differences between the caravel and fluyt?
Caravels were used for exploration while Fluyt's were used for cargo capacity
This type of trade network connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the triangular trade?
This exchange has the most devastating demographic impact on the Americas.
What are diseases from Europe and Africa?
This Portuguese explorer was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India.
Who is Vasco de Gama?
Before relying heavily on enslaved Africans, English colonies in North America heavily utilized this type of labor, where workers contracted for 4–7 years of work in exchange for passage.
What is Indentured Servitude?
Adopted from Chinese and Islamic sources, this device became essential for determining direction in open water.
What is the Magnetic Compass?
What is Potosi?
This American crop was a "game-changer" for European populations, providing high calories and preventing famine.
What is the Potato?
This trade route carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This Incan labor system was adapted by the Spanish to force indigenous people to work in dangerous silver mines, such as those in Potosí.
What is the Mita system?