Unit 8 - Global Exploration

What was the Middle Passage?

• Where goods were sent to China

• Where enslaved Africans were sent to the Americas

• Where sugar was sent to Europe

• Where weapons were sold to African kings

Where did most enslaved Africans end up in the Americas?

• The Caribbean and Brazil

• China

• Canada

• English Colonies

What was the Columbian Exchange?

• Triangular Trade

• Christopher Columbus's many trips to the New World

• The exchange of foods, animals, disease from the "New" and "Old" world

• The exchange of ideas and technology with China

Which were things discovered in the "New World"

• Flowers, yogurt, cucumbers, dates, figs

• Beans, Tomaotes, Tobacco, Pumpkins

• Ginger, Chickens, Rice, Bananas, Bamboo

• Ivory, Salt, Gold, Roses, Spices, Hardwoods

How did the Aztec deal with food in a city built on a lake?

• Grew farms after draining the lake

• Ate cows and pigs

• Stole food from other tribes

• Adapted the environment with floating gardens

Why did the English settle in North America?

• Trading with the natives

• It was too crowded in England

• Religious freedom (Plymouth) and gold (Jamestown)

• The Spanish already had most of South America

Why did the French settle in North America?

• Focused on trading with natives (Canada, Mississippi)

• To steal land from the English

• Because the Portuguese already had most of Africa

• To find a passage to China

Which social group was the most powerful in the Spanish colonies?

• Creoles

• Mestizos

• Peninsulares

• Enslaved Americans or Africans

What happened the Maya?

• Didn't have enough food for their people

• Left for the Europe

• Conquered the Aztecs

• Had too much food and gave it away

This is where Spanish forced natives to work farms or mines, basically slavery

• Encomienda System

• Hacienda Sytem

• Triangular Trade System

• Columbian Exchange