Why Explore?
Why did Europeans want to explore new lands?
For God, Gold and Glory.
To spread christianity, the find gold and new spice routes, and to compete against neighboring countries.
Which three continents were connected by Atlantic trade?
What is Africa, America, and Europe?
This term describes the exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between the Americas and the rest of the world after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Most silver during this time period was mined in this region.
What is the Americas?
Most European colonies existed mainly to do this for the mother country.
What is make money / provide resources?
Name one product Europeans wanted from Asia.
Spices, Silk, Porcelain
This ocean trade network existed long before Europeans arrived and connected East Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia.
What is the Indian Ocean Trade.
This food crop from the Americas helped increase population in Europe.
What is potatoes.
Would also accept corn/maize.
This European country became very wealthy from silver mined in its American colonies.
What is Spain?
This group did most of the hard labor in colonial mines and plantations.
Who are Indigenous people and enslaved Africans?
Which new technologies helped make long-distance ocean travel possible?
Carrack and Fluyt
This precious metal, mined mainly in the Americas, became a key part of global trade, especially with Asia.
What is silver trade?
This animal, brought by Europeans to the Americas, transformed transportation and warfare for many Indigenous peoples.
What is the horse?
Demand for silver in China was high during this period because it was required for this purpose?
What is for taxes?
This type of work was common on large colonial farms growing crops like sugar and tobacco.
What is plantation work?
This Italian explorer, sailing for Spain in 1492, reached the Americas and began lasting contact between Europe and the New World.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
European countries tried to control trade and collect wealth through colonies using this economic system.
What is mercantilism?
This disease brought by Europeans caused massive population loss among Indigenous Americans.
What is small pox?
One major negative effect of the silver trade in the Americas was the use of this labor system in dangerous mining conditions.
What is the encomienda system or mi'ta system?
Colonies were organized in ways that gave the most power to Europeans through this type of system.
What is a social hierarchy (or caste system)?
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa, helping open a sea route to Asia.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
One way European trade in the Atlantic differed from Indian Ocean trade was that Atlantic trade relied heavily on this labor system.
What is enslaved (forced) labor / slavery?
One long-term effect of the Columbian Exchange was the growth of plantation economies in the Americas, which depended on this labor system.
What is slave or forced labor system.
This trans-Pacific trade route carried silver from Mexico to Asia through the Philippines.
What is the Manila Galleon trade?
How did colonial labor systems change Indigenous societies in the Americas over time?
What is they caused population decline, loss of land, and breakdown of traditional communities?