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Topic 12
World History Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a small fast ship with a large cargo hold and usually three masts with triangular sails | caravel |
| a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas | conquistador |
| the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas | middle passage |
| Hernan Cortes conquered these people | Aztec |
| the Aztec were conquered in this year | 1519 |
| the European explorer first encountered the Americas in 1492 | Christopher Columbus |
| In 1498, Vasco de Gama reached this area | India |
| in 1488, this explorer reached the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa | Bartholomeu Dias |
| the trading of diseases, food, animals, people, and goods between the Americas and Eurasia is known as this | Columbian Exchange |
| this disease caused the most deaths of indigenous peoples in the Americas | smallpox |
| Spain, Portugal, England, and these two other countries claimed land in the Americas | Netherlands, France |
| this metal was a key in allowing the Europeans to conquer indigenous people | steel |
| this animal was significant in allowing hte Europeans to conquer indigenous people | horse |
| these people were brought to the Americas as slaves | Africans |
| this was the main crop grown on plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean | sugar |
| this was the first step of the Triangular Trade system | manufactured goods from Europe to Africa |
| this was the second step of the Triangular Trade system | slaves from Africa to the Americas |
| this was the third step of the Triangular Trade system | raw materials from the Americas to Europe |
| approximately this many African slaves were brought to the Americas over the course of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade | 12 million |
| the majority of African slaves were brought to this area | Caribbean |
| this church had a significant impact in the Americas as missionaries | catholics |
| most slaves were taken from this area of Africa in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade | west |
| He was the first person to travel all the way around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |