Exploration
Who is the explorer known for circumnavigating the globe?
Ferdinand Magellan
Which European nation had the largest colonized area in the Americas?
Spain
What is the system of forced labor used in Spanish Colonies?
The Encomienda System
What is the name of the trade network that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas where each place relied on the other two?
Triangle Trade
What is the tax placed on non-muslims in the Mughal Empire?
The Jizya
What is the impact of exploration on the Americas?
Colonization (will also accept population decline or exploitation of resources)
What is one crop/animal/disease that went from the OLD world to the NEW world via the Colombian exchange?
SOOOO many.......
Horses, smallpox, sugar........
Which region received the highest number of African Slaves?
The Caribbean
What is the economic system in which private individuals own the means of production?
Capitalism
Who is the Mughal ruler remembered for his religious tolerance?
Akbar
How did exploration impact maps?
Improved due to more information
What was the impact of colonization on the Native Population of the Americas?
What is one impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on AFRICA?
Depopulation OR long-term instability OR economic reliance on Slavery
What is the goal of mercantalism?
To increase profit by exporting more than you import
Who is the Mughal ruler remembered for discriminating against non-muslims?
Aurangzeb
Why did Europe explore?
To find DIRECT trade routes to Asia, especially India (avoid taxes from middlemen)
What is the Treaty that divided the world between Spain and Portugal?
Real name only..........
How did Europe access Africans to enslave?
They traded manufactured goods with African leaders.
Taxing goods from non-mother country, directing natural resources to mother country, etc......
What was Japan's response to European presence?
Why were Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain able to expand/colonize the New World FIRST?
They were closest to them and their exploration "discovered" the land before others
How did Mercantilist empires benefit from colonization
Exploitation of raw materials OR a market for manufactured goods
What is different about the Slavery during the Age of Colonization to earlier forms of Slavery?
It is racialized (I will also accept an EXPLANATION of chattel slavery)
What is the European system that used Enslaved labor to develop and increase agricultural commerce?
(Think: Cotton in Southern US, Sugar in Caribbean and Brazil)
What is the Canton System?
The Chinese system to limit European influence by only allowing trade at the port city of Canton