Age of Exploration Flashcards
Where did the Portuguese get their slaves from?
The West coast of Africa using the Triangular Trade
What is a conquistador?
Explorer-conquerors from Spain
A form of forced unpaid labor used by Spanish authorities and settlers in the colonies of the Spanish Empire
encomienda system
European Colonial powers bought or captured Africans as the slave, which were then traded to the Caribbean and American territory to Grow cash crops for the colonial powers.
Triangular slave trade
a mythical figure, who from the twelfth to seventeenth centuries, was thought by Europeans to be a real personage, ruling over a distant Christian empire, originally located in Asia, but from 1300 onwards increasingly associated with Ethiopia.
The legend of Prestor John
divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire
Treaty of Tordesillas
Why did Moctezuma allow the Spaniards to come into his kingdom without harm?
He thought the Spaniards were gods
Trading company which held a monopoly over the spice trade and ruled colonies, founded in the Dutch Republic
Dutch East India Company
What were the three motives for European expansion?
God, Glory, Gold
How did Europeans justify the slave trade?
Africans benefited from slavery because they were taught to be Christians.
How did the Ottoman conquest of the Byzantine Empire affect Western European trade?
European countries were forced to search for other trade routes, preferably by sea, to avoid land routes taken over by the Ottomans.
How did gold affect the Spanish economy?
With the influx of gold coming from Spanish colonies, Spain’s inflation continued to rise.
Tool used to find latitude at sea, had star charts
astrolabe
Portuguese prince who helped sponsor voyages across the Atlantic
Prince Henry the Navigator
What did Bartolome de Las Casas believe?
He believed that the native Indians in the New World deserved better treatment by the Spaniards, they were beaten, murdered, and taxed unfairly.
