World Exploration and Trade
This commodity from the New World boosted the Spanish Economy and became a basis for other mercantile economies.
What is Silver?
Spanish ships were the first to circumnavigate the globe when they sponsored the voyages of this explorer, who later died in the Phillipines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The Columbian Exchange linked 4 continents, bringing the exchange of these four things.
What is food, animals, people, and diseases?
This "new" type of slavery recognized individuals as property that could be bought and sold.
What is chattel slavery?
The grueling journey for slaves across that Atlantic was know as this.
What is the Middle Passage?
This skill of mapmaking, which included knowledge of current and wind patterns helped improve navigation in the 15th century.
What is Cartography?
This new Portuguese ship was very fast and maneuverable, it contained lateen sails on two or three masts.
What is the Caravel?
Many diseases devastated the Native Americans, but this one in particular had the worst effect.
What is smallpox?
These two nations began to pull back and isolate themselves as the rest of the world was connecting.
Who is China and Japan?
What is the Triangular Trade?
The trading of this fabric (known as "soft gold") was France’s major economic venture in the New World during the 17th century.
What is Fur Trading?
The first European Monarch to sponsor seafaring expeditions to search for an all water route to the east.
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
The "scattering" of native Africans out of Africa was referred to as this.
What is the African Diaspora?
This war allowed the British to gain control of India and much of North America over the French
What is the Seven Year's War (French and Indian War)?
The transformation to a trade-based economy using gold and silver is know as this revolution.
What is the Commercial Revolution?
The Dutch settled this community, which today is known as New York City.
What is New Amsterdam?
These two Spanish conquistadors brought destruction and the demise of the Aztec and Incan Empires?
Who is Francisco Pizarro and Hernan Cortes
An economic system that increased government control of the economy through high tariffs and the establishment of colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
This event in English history strengthened the power of parliament and forbid Catholics to rule England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This Cossack peasant Rebellion was fought in 1774 and ultimately resulted in Catherine the Great increasing her power over the peasants.
What is the Pugachev Rebellion?
The Portuguese reached the Cape of Good Hope in this century.
What is The 15th century?
This phrase is often used when describing the devastating effects European diseases had on the Native American population.
What is the Great Dying?
These two West African kingdom's gained tremendous influence due to their involvement in the slave trade.
Who are the Asante Empire and the Kingdom of the Kongo?
Fierce leader who united all the Maroons and was later regarded as a national hero in Jamaica.
Who was Queen Nanny?