Ch 16 Age of Exploration

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The population of Native Americans in Spanish colonies dropped by more than

90 percent

__________were people who worked for a set period of time in exchange for passage to the Americas.

Indentured servants

The_____colony in Virginia was settled by people intending to make their fortune by finding gold and silver.

Jamestown

Believed he had reached Asia but had instead reached the Atlantic coast of what is now Canada

John Cabot

One leg of triangular trade network

Middle Passage

Scholars estimate that how much of all food crops grown around the world today

One third

The explorer _______claimed Brazil for Portugal.

Pedro Cabral

Mercantilist would advocate that a nation do which of the following?

Sell more goods than it buys from foreign countries

Some native Americans helped Cortes because

The Aztecs were unpopular with those they had conquered

What was one result of the Treaty of Tordesillas

The Spanish empire was larger than the Portuguese empire

Incan ruler who refused to give up his empire and was killed

Atahualpa

In the passage by Olaudah Equiano, he describes

a slave ship

The ultimate goal of the early Portuguese explorers was to

find a water route around Africa to India

________of Portugal established a court for navigators and others interested in exploration.

Prince Henery

The Spanish colonial economy was based largely on

the mining of gold and silver

According to the map titled "Slave Trade" the British imported approximately how many slaves to their colonies

2.1 million

The_________refers to the spread of people of African descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe

African Diaspora

Sailors could calculate their location based on the position of the sun and stars in relation to the horizon with the

Astrolabe

Recommended replacing Native American laborers with imported African slaves

Bartolomé de Las Casas

According to the map titled "Slave Trade" the greatest number of African slaves were taken to

Brazil

How did the Renaissance contribute to the Age of Exploration

By awakening a spirit of discovery and innovation in Europe

Planters in the Americas began to use African slaves for labor because

Disease had killed millions of native Americans

Which of the following best describes the food exchange between Europe and the Americas?

Europeans brought wheat, sugar, and sheep to the Americas and took corn potatoes and turkeys to Europe

The ultimate goal of early English, Dutch, and French explorers was to

Find a passage to Asia

The economy of New France was based on

Fish and fur trading

Which of the following was a conquistador

Francisco Pizarro

A Portuguese prince who was a patron and supporter of explorers

Henry the navigator

Conquistador who defeated the Aztec Empire

Hernán Cortés

The_________established a colony at Plymouth,Massachusetts in 1620

Pilgrims

According to the map entitled the "Slave Trade" where were most slave forts located

The west coast of Africa

What was an effect of the Columbian Exchange

The exchange of foods and animals had a dramatic impact on later societies

The first European to lead an expedition that reached the Pacific Ocean

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

The first European to reach India by sailing around the Cape of Good Hope

Vasco de Gama

In a_____company,investors pool their money to fund large businesses and jointly take the risk of losing that money if the company fails.

joint-stock

The Spanish used captive Africans as

workers on Caribbean sugar plantations

_____is an economic system in which most economic activity is carried on by private individuals or organizations in order to seek a profit.

capitalism

A new type of ship that was light fast and highly maneuverable was known as the___________.

caravel

Brought from Europe to the Americas

coffee

Estates where cash crops were grown on a large scale

plantations

Huge estates in the Americas called___________grew cash crops such as sugar and tobacco.

plantations


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