chapter 1

Question 1

turning points in history that led to the age of exploration

Answer 1

Muslim middlemen, Enlightenment/sci revolution, Protestant/counter reformation, Marco Polo, Crusades, Renaissance (Dias, Da Gama)

Question 2

Reasons for exploration

Answer 2

wealth (Gold, cash crops, spice trade, avoid middlemen, spread Religion, Glory for individual Nation-state)

Question 3

Examples of Spanish vs. Portuguese

Answer 3

treaty of Tordesillas, line of demarcation

Question 4

Encomienda system- caste (powerful to least)

Answer 4

penisulares, creoles, mestizos, mullattoes, natives, slaves

Question 5

what did the old world bring the new world?

Answer 5

wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs, disease

Question 6

what did the new world bring the old world?

Answer 6

gold, silver, corn potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, Tabacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate, syphilis

Question 7

what was the old world?

Answer 7

Afro-Eurasia

Question 8

what was the new world?

Answer 8

The Americas