APMWH Unit 4: 1450-1750 CE- Maritime empires

Vasco de Gama, a Portuguese sailor, went around Africa, landed in India, expanding the nation's trade post empire east

The Renaissance Era of Europe (15th-17th centuries) was a REBIRTH of classical Persian architecture and literature

This individual's mission was to bring in the best minds to Portugal to create the world's premier maritime power

Incan rotational labor system for public projects that was later borrowed by Spanish colonizers to gain greater profits

All the following are examples of maritime technology developed by Europeans in the 15th-16th centuries EXCEPT

What part of the world led the way during the Maritime revolution of the 15 thru 17th centuries?

A few African states did profit by trading African POW's to European slave traders, despite the horrors slavery produced

England, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands and France were all major European players in maritime colonization

African slaves who were successful in rebellions against Euros and established settlements in the Caribbean and Brazil

The profits from Portuguese ________ plantations, and other Caribbean colonies increased demand for African slaves

Biological exchange of animals, people, food and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemispheres

Portuguese sailor Bartolomeu Dias was the first to sail around the tip of Africa

The goal of Mercantilm is ...

Haciendas were small religious buildings built in Mesoamerica by Europeans

British and Dutch Joint Stock Companies became huge during the maritime revolution. They were set by governments so that

The social hierarchy portrayed below was part of the __________ social structure system of Spanish colonial America

___________ was the first to circumnavigate the world for the Spanish, even though he was killed early int he expedition

The new plantation lifestyle in the Americas along with the shortage of natives led to the growth of the _________

All the following are accurate regarding the Atlantic Slave trade EXCEPT

Lateen sails triangular design allowed ships to draw wind form both sides of the ship

Which country sought to create a spice trade monopoly in the Indian Ocean with its trade ports?

The Spanish missionary that spoke against his own people in defense of Native Americans during colonization was

Conquistadors Cortez and Pizzaro both were aided by disease and better weapons in their conquests o the Aztecs and Incas

Who unknowingly started a massive global change after his landing on the Caribbean islands in 1492?

Asians were unimpressed by European sea explorers at first, viewing them as inferior and barbaric

Europeans took to the seas for trade during the 1400's because Buddhists had control of overland trade routes

All of the following are accurate about the caravel EXCEPT...

All of the following were motivations for European Maritime colonization EXCEPT

The British used indentured servintude in N. America. In which laborers worked off debt for 7 years and were then free

During the Italian Renaissance, an emphasis on individuality was reflected in the study of

The _____ and _____ stumbled across the east coast of N. America and the St. Lawrence Seaway in search for a NW Passage

The British were the 1st Euro nation to explore and colonize around the Hudson River in what is present day New York

African and Asian peoples were able to fight off European colonizers due to their superior weapons

Smallpox is estimated to have wiped out at least 50% of native populations in Americas, and 80-90% in certain areas

Wealthy and powerful patrons during the Italian Renaissance, like the ____ family in Florence, sponsored works of art.

The Treaty of Tordisillas, gave Spain the lands acquired in America, leaving Portugal without one American colony

Which country set up a trading post empire along the African Coast and established dominance in the Indian Ocean

The Renaissance in N. Europe was different than that in Italy due its theme of being critical of the Catholic Church

Spanish conquistadors were were immediately in awe of the sophistication and tech of the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan

The population of Europe dramatically decreased in after the introduction of the Columbian Exchange

Spanish labor system in Americas in which conquistadors swore to protect natives in return for physical labor

The form of slavery used in the African Slave trade, called chattel, where people became property of their purchaser

All of the following are accurate about European ships known as fluyts EXCEPT

The French established better relationships with Amerindians (natives) then the British, established by courier de bois

The most negative import from the Old World to the New World in the Columbian Exchange was

Which animal changed the lives of Native Americans in the plains by allowing them to hunt their food

All of the following were New world to Old World exchanges EXCEPT...

What does Maritime mean?

Euro colonization put greater environmental stress on the Americas due to deforestation, pollution, and depleted soil