Revolutions Final Exam

Why were Europeans seeking to explore routes across the oceans?

-wanted new trade routes (especially to Asia for goods such as spices and silk)

What were their goals in the “new world”?

-To convert natives to Catholicism

-To create profitable systems for crops (sugar, cotton, tobacco, etc.)

Who is Christopher Colombus?

An Italian explorer:

-discovered the Americas (founded by the Spanish)

-Forced indigenous people to work at golf mines and plantations

How did intercontinental trade develop as a result of exploration?

-The Europeans wanted to find new trade routes and access valuable goods

What was the role of slavery in the triangular trade?

-Triangular trade was in between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

1 stop) European products were sent from Europe to Africa, where the Europeans traded their goods for slaves from Africa…

2nd stop) The slaves the Europeans traded, were brought to the Americas and sold.

What was the “Middle Passage”?

One leg of the triangular trade system:

-Brutal sea journey that enslaved Africans were forced to endure

-Slaves were crowded in a ship, and there were many deaths, one reason being disease.

Olaudah Equiano

A formerly enslaved African:

-Because a prominent writer

-Wrote an autobiography about his experience of slavery and his journey through the middle passage

Encomienda system

Spanish labor system:

-established in the americas during colonization

The enlightenment is…

an era when old beliefs and customs were reexamined to see if they were rational and allowed for progres