2026 CORRECT ANSWERS CONFIRMED
◉ Columbian Exchange. Answer: An exchange of goods, ideas and
skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World
(North and South America) and vice versa.
◉ Mercantilism. Answer: An economic policy under which nations
sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts
of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
◉ Triangular Trade. Answer: Trading System between Europe,
Africa, and the colonies; European purchased slaves in Africa and
sold them to colonies, new materials from colonies went to Europe
while European finished products were sold in the colonies.
◉ Middle Passage. Answer: A voyage that brought enslaved Africans
across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
◉ Caravel. Answer: A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship
used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.
◉ Cartography. Answer: the science or the art of making maps
, ◉ Joint-stock companies. Answer: businesses formed by groups of
people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and
losses
◉ East India Companies. Answer: British, French, and Dutch trading
companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and
Asia; acted independently in their regions.
◉ Vodun. Answer: African religious ideas and practices among
descendants of African slaves in Haiti.
◉ Protestant Reformation. Answer: A religious movement of the 16th
century that began as an attempt to reform the Roman Catholic
Church and resulted in the creation of Protestant churches.
◉ Martin Luther. Answer: A German monk who became one of the
most famous critics of the Roman Catholic Chruch. In 1517, he wrote
95 theses, or statements of belief attacking the church practices. He
led the Protestant Reformation.
◉ 95 Theses. Answer: Martin Luther's ideas that he posted on the
church door at Wittenburg which questioned the Roman Catholic
Church. This act began the Reformation
◉ Catholic Reformation. Answer: Religious reform movement within
the Latin Christian Church, begun in response to the Protestant
Reformation. It clarified Catholic theology and reformed clerical
training and discipline.