HIS 110- CH 2 QUESTIONS

The Spanish established the first settlements in the Americans (beginning in the Caribbean)

Which country established the first colonies in the Americas?

Portuguese colonization of the Atlantic Islands in the 1400s inaugurated an era of aggressive European expansion across the Atlantic.

Which country initiated the era of Atlantic exploration?

Wheat, rye

Which crop did the Europeans bring to the New World?

sugar and tobacco

Which crop did the Europeans first find in the New World?

Initially, the French were committed to spreading Catholicism around the world, but once settled, The French were interested in creating extensive trading networks, especially for furs

What was the main goal of the French colonizing North America?

Portuguese traders built Elmina Castle (in present-day Ghana) to work as a fortified trading post with cannons facing out to the sea; the Portuguese had a greater fear of naval attack from Euros than land attack from Africans.

Elmina Castle on the west coast of Ghana was used mainly by:

a business entity in which investors (wealthy european merchants) provide the capital (money) and assume the risk in order to reap significant returns.

Joint Stock Companies were:

Christopher Columbus made landfall on an island in the Bahamas.

On which modern-day location did Christopher Columbus fleet first land in the New World?

Portuguese navigated a route to Africa

The Portuguese first navigated a route around:

enslaved natives tended to sicken or die from the disease, so they proved not to be a dependable source of labor.

Why did European colonists choose to replace the slave labor of Native peoples with that of West Africans