North American colonization
Decline of nation-states in Europe
The Columbia exchange
Large trade networks developed
Advanced technology in armaments and naval shipbuilding
Need for raw materials and markets for finished products
Desire to spread democracy and capitalism around the world
Need to find better land and sea trade routes around the world
Fallow fields
Floating gardens
Grain cultivation
Terrace planting
Calligraphy
Cuneiform
Hieroglyphic
Ideograph
Location and quipu
Warring and calendar
Pyramids and road system
Terracing and mineral wealth
Quipu
Calender
Pyramids
Chinampas
Education
Law
Religion
War
The prevailing dry winds from the eastern part of the country
The system of highways that the inventive Incas had built
The way the Incas lived in close contact with each other
The lack of cleanliness that was typical of Inca civilization
They mapped the entire coastline of Central and South America
The converted large numbers of indigenous people to Catholicism
They opened the new world for future Spanish colonization
They began the trade with both Spice Islands and the Americans
Cultural interaction
Economic opportunity
Politicial revolutions
Population exlosion
South America
Central America
Florida Peninsula
Caribbean Islands
Christopher Columbus
Bartolomeau Dias
Henry Hudson
Marco Polo
Gold
Immigrants
Land
Spices
Chocolate
Coffee
Grapes
Oranges
Onions
Potatoes
Rice
Wheat
Decrease of crops available to colonists in the Americas
Re-population of certain African areas due to slave trade
Trade ceased to be a means of making a living in the New World
Growth of plantation agriculture especially in the Southern Colonies
Disrupted trade relations with East Asia
Introduced slavery to the western hemisphere
Discouraged the growth of European middle class
Encouraged the creation of the European alliance system
A permanent weakening of the continent of Africa
Colonization by the Europeans in the 19th century
Millions of dollars paid into the economies of Africa
The fostering of racism from which Africans still suffer
War and disease killed millions of natives
Millions of Africans were enslaved in the Americans
Rivalries between European slave traders intensified
The cotton gin was developed to finally replace slaves
Holiday sales
Martin Luther King day
Stores closed on sundays
Invocations in the parliament
Humanist ideas from the Renaissance
Scientific discoveries from the Enlightenment
The destruction of the Thirty Years War
The legacy of the Peace of Augsburg
Church
Individual
State
Village
Government leaders have lifetime appointments
Law and government are divinely inspired
Government leaders have absolute authority
Religion and government are separate institutions
Anglican
Lutheran
Greek Orthodox
Wesleyan Methodist
Religious toleration spread throughout Europe
Lutheranism gained a stronghold in Scotland
The Anglican Church was founded in England
The Roman Catholic Church dominated all of Europe
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