Chap 13 Flashcards
The five countries that built large maritime empires between 1450-1750
Spanish, portuguese, British, French, and Dutch
Why were the Europeans distinctive?
The conquered territories lay an ocean from the imperial heartland, rather than adjacent to it.
What are some advantages Europeans had and taking colonies in Americas (with the Aztec and in Inco in participation)
They were closer than any potential Asian competitors in the fix winds blew steadily in the same direction. European innovations in map making, navigation, sailing techniques and ship design enable them to penetrate the Atlantic ocean. There’s states in trading companies enabled the effective mobilization of both human immaterial resources their ironworking technology, and gunpowder weapons and horses initially had no parallel in the Americas. Divisions within but most significantly where are their germs and diseases that decimated society after society
Approximately what percentage of the Native American population died after being exposed to these diseases
90%
What were the effects of a little Ice Age in Eurasia and the Americas
Shorter growing seasons and less hospital weather conditions adversely affected food population and religions across the globe. Eurasia in the Americas experience record or near record-breaking cold winters during this period. Too much rainfall in Europe ruin crops wild routes ruined crops like in China all due to extreme conditions. Uprisings, widespread, families, epidemics, and wars in which millions perished. Collapse of the ming dynasty in China, constant warfare in Europe and Civil War in Mughal India and occurred during this general crisis
What two groups of people’s became the labor force in the Americas after the Native American population was destroyed by diseases
Colonizing Europeans and enslaved Africans
What Crops traveled from Europe and went to the Americas
Wheat, rice, sugarcane, grapes, garden veggies and fruits, and numerous weeds. Some animals that transported were pigs, cattle, goats, and sheep
What food crops traveled from the Americas to Europe
Corn, potatoes, and cassava
What food crops traveled from the Americas to China
Corn, peanuts, and sweet potatoes
What food crops traveled from the Americas to Africa
Corn, peanuts, and cassava
What many other things that were being exchange ground around the world
Tobacco and chocolate, tea, coffee, soap, porcelain
Which mines field both trans Atlantic and transpacific commerce was the resource that was used to create the First global economy
Silver
What a comic foundation for this emerging Colonial society lay
Commercial agriculture and silver and gold mining’s
What was at the bottom of the Spanish colonial society
Indigenous people, europeans also known as indians
What was the dominant export of colonies in Brazil in the Caribbean
Sugar