age of discovery

Question 1

conquistador

Answer 1

a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

Question 2

colony

Answer 2

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
synonyms: settlement · dependency · protectorate · satellite · territory · outpost · [more]
a group of people of one nationality or ethnic group living in a foreign city or country:
“the British colony in New York”
synonyms: community · commune · quarter · district · ghetto
biology
a community of animals or plants of one kind living close together or forming a physically connected structure:
“a colony of seals”

Question 3

mercantilism

Answer 3

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
historical
the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism

Question 4

balance of trade

Answer 4

the difference in value between a country’s imports and exports.

Question 5

the compass

Answer 5

compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic “cardinal directions”, or “points”.

Question 6

joint stock company

Answer 6

A joint-stock company is a business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns company stock in proportion, evidenced by his or her shares. This allows for the unequal ownership of a business with some shareholders owning a bigger proportion of a company than others do. Shareholders are able to transfer their shares to others without any effects to the continued existence of the company

Question 7

tranglar trade

Answer 7

a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
used to refer to the trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities, which were in turn shipped back to Britain.

Question 8

columbian enchange

Answer 8

The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds. Exchanges of plants, animals, diseases and technology transformed European and Native American ways of life.

Question 9

middle passage

Answer 9

the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

Question 10

trady of tordesillas

Answer 10

The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.

Question 11

henry the navigator

Answer 11

1394–1460, prince of Portugal, patron of exploration. Because he fought with extraordinary valor in the Portuguese conquest of Ceuta (1415), he was created duke of Viseu by his father, John I, king of Portugal.

Question 12

cristopher columbus

Answer 12

Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa. Under the auspices of the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, he completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean. Those voyages a…

Question 13

vasco de gama

Answer 13

Portuguese navigator: first to sail from Europe to India.

Question 14

hernan cortes

Answer 14

Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule o…

Question 15

Zheng He

Answer 15

Zheng He, formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China’s early Ming dynasty. Born Ma He, Zheng commanded expeditionary voyages to Southeast Asia, S

Question 16

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 16

Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano.

Question 17

encomienda/repartimiento system

Answer 17

The encomienda system was a trusteeship system used during the Spanish colonization of the Americas, whereby conquistadors were granted the towns of the indigenous people they conquered. The conquistadors, known as encomenderos, were able to tax these people and summon them for labor.

Question 18

dutch east india company

Answer 18

a Dutch trading company founded in 1602 to protect Dutch trading interests in the Indian Ocean. It was dissolved in 1799.

Question 19

spice trade

Answer 19

The spice trade refers to the trade between historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe. Spices such as cinnamon, cassia, cardamom, ginger, pepper, and turmeric were known, and used for commerce, in the Eastern World well into antiquity. Opium was also imported.

Question 20

arawak

Answer 20

a member of a people originally of the Greater Antilles and adjacent South America, now living mainly in Guiana. They were forced out of the Antilles by the more warlike Caribs shortly before Spanish expansion in the Caribbean.
any of the languages of the Arawak.

Question 21

The philippines

Answer 21

Philippines, is a sovereign island country in Southeast Asia situated in the western Pacific Ocean. It consists of about 7,641 islands that are categorized broadly under three main geogra

Question 22

fort jesus mombasa

Answer 22

Fort Jesus (Portuguese: Forte Jesus de Mombaca) mombaça is A portuguese fort built between 1593 and 1596 by order Of King Philip i Of, portugal located On Mombasa island to guard The Old port Of, Mombasa. kenya

Question 23

kongo kingdom

Answer 23

The Kingdom of Kongo was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what is now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the southe…

Question 24

menin tribe

Answer 24

any aggregate of people united by ties of descent from a common ancestor, community of customs and traditions, adherence to the same leaders, etc.
2.
a local division of an aboriginal people.
3.
a division of some other people.
4.
a class or type of animals, plants, articles, or the like.
5.
Animal Husbandry. a group of animals, especially cattle, descended through the female line from a common female ancestor.
6.
Biology.
a category in the classification of organisms usually between a subfamily and a genus or sometimes between a suborder and a