Motivations
This is the belief that Europe is at the center of the world when it comes to retelling history (think map and textbooks)
What is Eurocentrism?
This ship allowed Portugal to take the lead in exploring
What is the caravel?
This was the year Spain finally unified and became stable.
What is 1469?
This was the economic state of Britain in the 1600s.
What is poor?
This led to the introduction of new plants and animals to the Americas
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The economic policy that drove European countries to colonize the Americas -- exports are more than imports; raw materials from colonies
What is mercantilism?
This land was colonized by Portugal
What is Brazil?
This was the labor system used in Spanish colonies, peninsulares on top, negros on bottom
What is the encomienda system?
When Queen Elizabeth I said no to public funding, she helped come up with a compromise known as this.
What is joint stock company?
This led to the decimation of indigenous populations in the Americas
What are European diseases?
This was brought on by fighting between Muslims and Christians and the desire for luxury goods
What is the need to find new trade routes to Asia by going west?
These are the natural resources that Portugal wanted from Brazil
What are Brazilwood, coffee, sugar, gold?
This conquistador battled the Aztecs.
Who is Cortes?
This religious group fled England for America because of persecution.
Who are the Puritans?
This race resulted from Spanish colonization of the Americas
What is the mixed race/mestizos?
Innovations from this movement made exploration possible in the 16th and 17th centuries
What is the Scientific Revolution?
These people were exploited in the mines and plantations
Who are indigenous Brazilians?
This conquistador took over the Incas.
Who is Pizarro?
These people came over from England, were poor, and worked for 4-7 years.
Who are indentured servants?
This blended with local religions in the Americas because of European colonization
What is Christianity?
After hundreds of years fighting the Muslims, Spain and Portugal wanted to do this in the Americas.
What is "spread Christianity, convert indigenous populations"?
Portugal took the lead in exporting these people to help work the mines and plantations
Who are African slaves?
This concept drove the encomienda system
What is purity of blood?
In the 1620s, this was based on whether one was Christian. In the 1640s, this was based on whether was one was white.
What is slavery?
This movement of people took off once indigenous peoples were killed by European diseases and indentured servants' contracts ran out
What is Atlantic Slave Trade/Triangular Trade?