13-14 Flashcards
What did Spain get out of the Treaty of Tordesillas in 1494?
Spain got land to the West of the line.
List what was driving European expansion during this age?
God, gold, and glory
Who went to his grave believing he had discovered a westward passage to Asia, when in fact he
had actually discovered the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
What did Vasco de Gama’s discovery of a route to India by sea prove to be the rest of Europe?
It proved that people could make a profit of exploration
Which explorer is the source of the names of North, Central, and South America?
Amerigo Vespucci
What was the name of the set of principles that dominated economic thought in the
seventeenth century?
Mercantilism
Originally, why were African slaves brought to the Americas?
Africans were originally brought to the Americas because they were a cheaper and more plentiful labor source.
Which society of eastern Nigeria produced more slaves than practically any other in the
Continent?
Ibo
What was the name for the journey of slaves from Africa to America?
The Middle Passage
What were the aggressive Dutch traders able to do to the Portuguese and English in the
East?
The aggressive Dutch traders drove the English traders out of the spice market, reducing the English influence to a single port on the southern coast of Sumatra.
What did the Edict of Nantes do in France?
He effectively ended the French Wars of Religion
by granting official tolerance to Protestantism.
What was the Spanish armada?
The Spanish Armada was one part of a planned invasion of England by King Philip II of Spain.
The Thirty Years’ War involved all the major European powers except which nation?
England
What did Henry of Navarre do when he became Henry IV?
He led Protestant forces against the French royal army.
How did Louis XIV keep absolute control in France?
Absolutism/He viewed himself as the direct
representative of God, endowed with a divine right to wield the absolute power of the monarchy.
