Chapter 16 Deck Two Flashcards
How would you describe the contradictory actions of the Catholic Church in colonial Latin America
The church moved many native Americans from Spanish territory to Portuguese territory, but encouraged the importation of African slaves
How did the crusades indirectly contribute to the discovery of the New World?
Stimulating European demand for goods from the east
In the 1600s, the interest of Europeans in Africa was based mainly on Europe’s need to do what?
Obtain workers for its colonies in the Americas
The printing press, the astrolabe, and the Mercator projection were technological advances that contributed to what?
Exploration and overseas expansion of colonial empires
How did native Americans influence European colonists’ food and other goods?
Corn
European traders sent Africans to the Americas to do what?
Work as slaves on plantations
Which country was influenced by Portuguese culture?
Brazil
How did Prince Henry change the course of Portugal’s history?
Portugal lead the way in exploration
What resulted from encounters between the Spanish and Native Americans?
The Native American population declined
What did Europeans learn from native Americans?
Hunting and trapping of forest animals
The culture that developed in Brazil blended Native American and African influences with those of what European country?
Portugal
By the 1500s the most important element of African trade with Europeans was___
Enslaved Africans
Describe the economic policy of mercantilism?
It was based on a belief that a nation’s wealth was measured in its gold and silver treasure
what was the Part of the slave trade network that sent enslaved people from Africa to the Americas?
Middle passage
Who was the Zulu leader who waged war against nearby peoples in southern Africa?
Shaka Zulu
