Transantlantic Slave Trade

Question 1

Christopher Columbus

Answer 1

Cristobal Colombo-1492
Makes the 1st of 4 voyages. Lands in the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola

1493- Puerto Rico
- founds a colony in Hispaniola

1498- Venezuela

1502- Central America

Question 2

Asiento

Answer 2

Slave trading license

Question 3

Bartolome de las casas

Answer 3

• Priest
• Main defender of indigenous people
• Suggested use of Africans for labor instead of Indians

Question 4

Treaties

Answer 4

1493
Pope Alexander VI draws Line of Demarcation to divide the new world between Spanish & Portuguese.
-Spanish got Americas and small portion of Asia. Portugal got Africa and large portion of Asia.

Treaty of Tordesillas 1494

• alters line of demarcation
• gives Portugal one area in the Americas (Brazil)

Question 5

Portuguese

Answer 5

1488
Bartolome Dias: 1st European to sail around southernmost tip of Africa

1497-1499
Vasco de Gama: 1st European to sail to India