exploration and columbian exchange review

Five major European exploratory powers

Portugal, france, spain, netherlands, england

What philosophy of the renaissance encouanged the age of exploration explorers

humanism

3 types of new technology that enabled the age of exploration

compass, astrolabe, caravel

Two major portugese colonies in africa in the 1500s

Mozambique and Angola

Two advantages that the spanish had over the native americans

immune to diseases,had more firarms

3 main spanish colonies in the caribbean 1600s

Puerto rico, Hispanola, cuba

What spaniard conquered the Aztecs

Hernando Cortez

Main spanish colony in asia

Phillipeans

Most of spains wealth came from what product

Silver

2 french cities founded as colonies in Canada

Quebec, Montreal

4 New England colonies founded by the British in 1600’s

Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire.

4 territories founded by the British in Canada

New foundlands, Nova Scotia, Hudson Bay

What areas of Asia did the British began to colonize in 1700s

Coastal cities of India

What major coorportation took over the spice trade

East India Company

What was the term for the Dutch settlers who founded cape town in South Africa

Boer Settlers

Columbian Exchange

Massive trade of goods, people, diseases, between the old and new world.

Triangular trade

The trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas

What are 3 diseases brought from the old world that devastated Native American Populations

Influenza, measles, Smallpox

5 things brought to the new world as part of the columbian exchange

cattle, sheep, horses, wheat, rice, sugar

5 Native American crops brought to the world world by the columbian exchange

Potatoes, tomatoes, corn, peanuts, cacao, pumpkin

Two reasons africans were chosen to be slaves

Already knew the area, immune to diseases

What 3 items did Europeans trade to west african kingdoms for slaves

Gunpowder weapons, textiles, rum, metal

What 3 west african kingdoms sold war captives to european slavers

Benin, Asante, Dahomey

What was the voyage acrosse the atlantic for slave ships called

Middle passage

5 most valuble cash crops in the new world

Cotton, sugar, tobacco, coffee, rice

Approxiametly how many people were shipped to the new world during the slave trade.

12.5 million

Main mining product produced by slave labor in the new world

silver mining

2 european powers that allowed citizenship for free slaves

france, spain

What year did the external slave trade begin to be abolished

1807

how was the atlantic slave trade different from other forms of slavery in history

based on race

Social class of spanish made up of unmixed spanish heritage born in spain

peninsulares

social class of spanish made up of people who were part spanish and part native american heritage

Mestizos

3 products brazil produced for portugal

sugar, gold, diamond

dutch sugar colony in northern south america

suriname

First major french sugar colony in the caribbean

Haiti

Major British sugar colony in the carribean

Jamaica

2 areas of north america that british and fresh settled in

east coast, canada

which 3 of the 13 colonies had the heaviest reliance on slaverty and plantation agriculture

georgia, virginia, south carolina

French colony in north america that grew sugar around the port of new orleans

Louisiana territory

2 religions emerged in the caribean that were a fusion of christian belifs with african and native american spiritutal beliefs

voodoo, santeria