never eat shredded wheat
The magnetic Compass
what 4 european empires created colonies in the americas
Portugal, Spain, France, ENgland
maximizing exports, minimize imports
merCANTilism
what is this
Atlantic Slave trade
the idea that rulers have all the power cuz god chose them
absolutism
3 things why the inca fell off
-the spanish colonized them
- took there emperor
-they didnt have cool weapons
what is vodun
Syncretic religion based on christianity and indigenous african religions mixed together in the Americas
what is this a map of
Portuguse
invention that allowed ships to sail any direction
lanteen sails
way of life centered on human interests
humanism
how did dutch get rich and monopolize
they took control of nutmeg and sold it to akbar for big bucks
cash crop
crop made for profit $.$
what empire is this
Mughal empire
taking control of indigenous people in an area
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a legal thing where the spanish colonies were separated
casta system
a form of feudalism. In this, a Spanish soldier-citizen is allotted a certain number of Native Americans who he then would extract a tribute of goods or services from, and in exchange he protected the Indians.
encoimienda system
what helped heavy ships to be steered
what were maroon societies
rebellion of slave communities in america
why were the white people able to colonize the americas and not asia and africa
-they were too advance and the americas weren't
Explain Potosi's silver mine and how it affected history
Potosi became the engine of an international network which ended Eurasia's bullion famine after 1550 and provided the silver flows that reached westwards across the Atlantic Ocean from South America via the isthmus of Panama to Spain and Europe, and to the east from Seville in Spain and Lisbon in Portugal to the ...