From Exploration To Colinization Flashcards
By the early 1500s, Spain realizes that they not longer need to travel to Asia for spices.
Sugar, cinnamon and vanilla flourish in Caribbean
environments
Both kingdoms begin to convert their American lands to ___
Spice plantations
What was the Colombian Exchange?
Transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and the “Old World”
Both Spain and Portugal face a new need for their American colonies:
Labor
Encomineda
the enslavement of native Americans
The alarming death rate among native Americans will lead Spain and Portugal to seek a new scourge of labor:
Africa
African slavory
-Based on warfare
-Not heredity
-temporary
Slavery in the New World
-Based on race
-Hereditary
-Permanent
Triangular trade
Direction of trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas
All of the wealth being transferred by sea is going to attract the attention of one group…
Pirates
Spain and Portugal will now face competition in the New World from ___
France, the Netherlands and Britain
Spain and Portuagal begin to ___
fade as empire
-Peace of Augsburg
Year-
Charles v___
Holy roman empire goes to___
Spain, the Netherlands and colonies go to ___
1555
* Charles V is forced to divide his empire
– Holy Roman Empire goes to his brother (Ferdinand I)
– Spain, the Netherlands and colonies go to his son (Philip II)
The Netherlands break away from Spanish Empire
-1568
Aided by Elizabeth
English pirate-2nd to circumnavigate the globe
Francis Drake