Period 1: Exploration in the Americas 1491-1607

Question 1

Transfer of goods, diseases, ideas, and people from the Americas to Europe

Answer 1

Columbian Exchange

Question 2

What was the main goal of the Spanish Colonization in the Americas?

Answer 2

convert natives to catholicism

Question 3

What was the encomienda system?

Answer 3

spanish enslaving natives to use them for minerals and agriculture; with the end goal to convert them

Question 4

.______ like system was put into place in order to keep social order among people

Answer 4

Caste

Question 5

French colonizers focused on what?

Answer 5

fur trade

Question 6

English colonization focused on what?

Answer 6

making money

Question 7

English colonizers focued on making money, looking for gold, and they did this through what kind of institution?

Answer 7

Joint-Stock Companies

Question 8

Why did the french, english, and spanish want to explore?

Answer 8

population increase, political unification, and the desire for luxury goods

Question 9

Christopher Columbus found the Americas when?

this is just for context

Answer 9

1942

Question 10

during this period, what fundamentaly transformed THE WORLD?

Answer 10

columbian exchange

Question 11

What was the Atlantic Slave Trade?

Answer 11

the transfer of African slaves from the western Gold Coast to the Americas through the middle passage

Question 12

What disease did spanish Hernan Cortes bring wiping out native populations?

Answer 12

smallpox