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18 Cards in this Set
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What did ships transport on the Middle Passage?
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gold and enslaved Africans
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What did England export?
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manufactured goods
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Who conquered the Aztec empire?
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Hernando cortes?
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Why did the Europeans see Africans as a better source of labor than the Native Americans?
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Africans were strangers in the Americas, so they wouldn't have allies or places to hide
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What was the purpose of most of the joint stock companies of the 1500's and 1600's?
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Funding colonies in the Americas
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Where in the Americas did Columbus land first?
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An island in the Caribbean sea
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What did the ecomienda system provide for New Spain?
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A cheap labor source
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What European country was the first to import enslaved Africans to the Americas?
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Spain
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As part of the Columbian Exchange, which of the following was carried west across the Atlantic?
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livestock
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What helped to increase the slave trade in Africa during the seventh century?
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the spread of Islam in Africa
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On what assumption was the ecomienda system based?
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that Europeans had the right to demand labor from Native Americans
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What was one result of the loss of native lives to disease?
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a severe shortage of labor in the colonies
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How did slavery in African and Muslin societies differ from slavery in the Americas?
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slavery in the Americas was based on race and cause heredity
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how did Bartoleme de las Casas affect race relations in the Americas?
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he urged better treatment of Native Americans but proposed using African laborers
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According to the policy of mercantilism, how could a nation increase its wealth?
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it should sell more goods than it buys from other countries
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How was Africa affected by the Atlantic slave trade?
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Many cultures lost their fittest members and families were torn
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Which places were parts of all three triangular routes?
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New England, New York, and Philadelphia
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What did the West indies export both to England to new England, New York and Philedalphia?
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sugar a molasses
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