EU Expansion (International) Flashcards
Trade: What was the result of crusades?
taste for luxury goods
Trade: What qualified as luxury goods?
silk from China, cotton from India, incense from Arabia, and spices
Trade: What was the starting point of new world discovery?
Europe began to participate in global networks of trade, people, and power
Trade: How did Religion come into play with Trade?
The desire to convert “heathens” to contributed to exploration motivation
Trade: What was a new concept with trade as people discovered New world, Asia, and more of Africa?
Global trade networks with other civilizations
Trade: What is the Columbian Exchange?
biological and cultural consequences of the Europe and the Americas exchange that began in 1492.
Trade: What was exchanged in the Columbian exchange?
Diseases to indigenous peoples, plants and animals
Trade: What were 2 things the Treaty of Tordesillas?
- Divided up the new world where spain got left side and portugal got right side
- It claimed that because the pope represented god, all people were under pope’s jurisdiction
Trade: What did the African slave trade reinforce over the long term?
Inferiority of African people
Trade: What was the triangular trade?
A 3 way exploitative system:
Basic commodities shipped from Europe from New world => Manufacturing shipped to Africa => Slaves shipped to new world
New World: How did Columbus get allowance to sail to new world?
Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand of Aragon allowed columbus
New World: What did Columbus do in the New World?
He allowed his subordinates to massacre and enslave the people despite Ferdinand and Isabella didn’t want that
New World: How was the indigenous population destroyed?
With transmission of European diseases
New World: Why was there a demand for slaves?
Because there was not enough indigenous peoples to work mines and plantations
New World: What did Spanish upon landiing
in the New world?
Found new settlements and transforming indigenous settlments