unit 4

Question 1

What were some innovations in european martime technology?

Answer 1

-creation of new kinds of ships (fluyt, carrick, caravel)
-smaller, faster, easier to build, mercant ships

-lateen sail: use wind on either side of boat

-magnetic compass

Question 2

Why did europe want a sea route to asia?

Answer 2

muslims controlled all land trade and made it very hard for Europe to establish there own trade routes

Question 3

what did europe discover when trying to find new trade routes?

Answer 3

-columbus found the amercias
-started trade between the “new world” and “old world”
-created the columbian exchange

Question 4

What was the columbian exchange?

Answer 4

-biological exchange of animals, people, food, and diseases between eastern and western hemispheres

-they brought small poxs to the americas
-50/90% of americas native population was killed by this disease

-atlantic slave trade: Cattel slavery: importation of slave people from africa

Question 5

What was
indentured
servitude?

Answer 5

Used mostly by the British in North
America, it was a system where servants
were bound to work for seven years and
then could go free.

Question 6

Why did
Europeans think
that chattle slavery
from Africa was a
better labor
system?

Answer 6

. Africans were property for life & they
weren’t susceptible to European
diseases.

Question 7

What was
mercantilism?

Answer 7

-dominated economic system
-fixed amount of wealth in the world (measured in gold and silver)
-. Based on the belief that there was a finite amount of gold and silver in the world, and that having the most of it would lead to the strongest state, Europeans competed for wealth.

Question 8

. How was the
Portuguese empire
different from most
other European
states?

Answer 8

Instead of claiming large pieces of land they established a Trading-Post Empire along the African coast. This helped them to become a major player in
the Indian Ocean. They did, however, establish some traditional colonies, like
Brazil.

Question 9

How did the
British and Dutch
governments
support exploration
and colonization in
a new and
innovative way?

Answer 9

• they created joint stock companies
  -fun exploration on private investors who shared payment for that exporation

Question 10

What was the caste system that developed in the americas

Answer 10

-casta system: organized sytem base on race and anstcetry
(peninsularies at top (who were born in europe, africans at the bottom)
-the more white you are the more power you have