EU Expansion (International) Flashcards
(39 cards)
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
New World: Why did English establish settlements on east coast of NA?
inadequate resources and conflict with the indigenous
New World: What was the most important product of trans-atlantic trade? What did this create?
Sugar which led to high demand for plantations and slave trade
New World: Why did colonies eventually rebel?
Because of the distractions of the enlightenment coinciding with colonies producing their own identity
New World: What was Brazil to Portugal?
Major supply for sugar and a destination for settlers
New World: How did English colonies grow and become independently governed?
Political institutions, governors, and assemblies established
New World: What was americas motivation of the American Revolution?
Europe was trying to take more control over prosperous colonies that are more successful than them
New World: How was the 7 years war participated in the new world?
British colonists pushed east for more land because of hunger caused by the war which led them to battles with the French
New World: How did the Peace of Utrecht affect French land in New world?
It forced French to give Acadia to the British
New World: What was the effect of slavery being established in southern colonies?
Sexual exploitation of African womem
