SG WH Exploration and Discovery

Country wants to export (sell to others) more than they import (buy goods from other countries)

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Mercantilism

Which is an impact of the Encomienda System?

• Eliminated the use of guilds

• Reduced Spanish influence

• Used Native American labor on European owned land.

Exchange of goods, culture, information, animals, plants, and disease between two hemispheres.

• Old World

• Colombian Exchange

• Trans-Atlantic Trade

In 1492, this explorer discovered the Caribbean, what we know as the new world.

• Henry Cabot

• Christopher Columbus

• Amerigo Vespucci

located on what is now known as the Yucatan Peninsula?

• Aztec

• Incan

• Mayan

Trade route betwen Europe, Africa, and the Americas

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Silk Road

In the late 1400s and early 1500s, what was a major reason for the European voyages of exploration?

• Introduction of Enlightenment ideas
• Rapid industrialization
• Need for alternate trade routes

Name for the Aztec's feathered serpent god

• Quetzalcoatl
• Huitzilopochtli
• Teotihuacan

Where were most manufactured/made goods produced?

• Africa

• The Americas

• Europe

Which MesoAmerican civilization is located in what is present day Peru?

• Aztec
• Incan
• Mayan