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Who was the Aztec Empire conquered by?

Hernando Cortés

The French found trade in what commodity to be the most profitable?

furs

What was the most significant error of Ptolemy's Geography?

underestimated the size of the earth

On his initial voyage to the Americas in 1492, what did Columbus consider the natives to be?

handsome and peaceful

Who was the first European explorer to realize that Columbus had discovered an unknown continent?

Amerigo Vespucci

One of the many motivations for exploration in the fifteenth century was the desire of European monarchs to...?

compete with one another

Columbus's goal was to reach the Indies, which for him meant...?

Asia

What European kingdom took the lead in overseas exploration?

Portugal

In 1492, Spain conquered Granada, which encouraged what?

religious fervor to convert to Muslim

Where did Columbus first land in the Americas?

the Bahamas

In the sixteenth century, there was a huge increase in the use of enslaved Africans in Brazil in order to produce what?

sugar

What was the most important food item introduced from the New World to Europe?

white potatoes

It is believed that the native population of the Americas in 1492 was?

50 million

Most of the African slaves who died on the voyage to the Americas died of what?

dysentery

The Royal African Company was created by England to facilitate trade in what?

African slaves

The seventeenth century Dutch trade was based on what?

spices

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What was the most important food item introduced from the New World to Europe?

These two-way exchanges between the Americas and Europe/Africa are known collectively as the Columbian Exchange. Of all the commodities in the Atlantic World, sugar proved to be the most important. Indeed, in the colonial era, sugar carried the same economic importance as oil does today.

Who was the first European explorer to realize that Columbus had discovered an unknown continent?

And that was the realization that what he was looking at was not India at all, but an entirely new continent. He verified the fact by following the coast of South America down to within 400 miles of Tierra del Fuego. Columbus found the new world, but Vespucci was the man who recognized that it was a new world.

Who had the most advanced economy in the world before the eighteenth century?

Between 1000 and 1500, China was the world's most dynamic economy. This dynamism was not matched by any parts of Europe until after 1500. But as Europe's economy began to expand after 1500, regions of China's economy also continued to expand.

What did the Spanish discovered at Potosi in the sixteenth century?

The most important source of wealth in all of the Americas for the Spanish crown was discovered in 1545: the mountain of Potosi in present-day Bolivia. Potosi had the most enormous silver deposits in the world at the time, producing thousands of tons of silver for the crown.