Ch. 14 Exploration

Question 0

Bartholomeu Dias

Answer 0

• Took advantage of westerly winds in the South Atlantic to round the Cape of Good Hope, but he feared a mutiny from his crew and returned.

Question 1

Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 1

• Established a school of navigation

Question 2

Vasco da Gama

Answer 2

• commissioned fleet to cross Arabian Sea and reach the port of Calicut.
• announced to hosts that he had come in search of “Christians and spices.”
• his vessels return to Europe with ginger and cinnamon
• this cargo earned the investors a profit of several thousand percent.

Question 3

Christopher Columbus

Answer 3

• Felt that Asia could be reached by sailing west instead of around Africa.
• Queen Isabella of Spain financed his exploratory expedition.
• Reached Hispaniola and thought it was Asia.

Question 4

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 4

• Sailed across the Pacific ocean and reached the Philippines.
• Magellans name is still associated with the first circumnavigation of the earth.

Question 5

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 5

• Divided of the New World between Spain and Portuguese.
• Spain colonized west of the Americas.
• Portugal colonized east of the Americas.(Brazil Africa Macau)

Question 6

Hernan Cortés

Answer 6

• Led several hundred Spanish soldiers and many thousands of Indian allies and conquered the Aztec empire.

Question 7

Francisco Pizarro

Answer 7

• Destroy the Incan Empire.
• Seized as much money as possible.
• Killed by his conquistadors

Question 8

The triangular trade

Answer 8

• Connected Europe Africa and American continents.
• European merchants ships (British, French Spaniard Portuguese…) carried European manufactured goods (guns gin cloth) to Africa where they were traded for a cargo of slaves.

Question 9

Dutch East India Company

Answer 9

•trading company established under government sponsorship.
•set up a settlement in Southern Africa
*meant to serve as a base to provide food and other provisions
•developed into a colony

Question 10

Navigation Acts

Answer 10

•Restricted the use of foreign ships for trade between Britain and it’s colonies

Question 11

Joint Stock Trading Company

Answer 11

• individuals buying a share and receiving value on their income.
• (group of directors made final decisions)

Question 12

Mercantilism

Answer 12

• Name of historians use to identify a set of economic tendencies.
• They came to dominate economic practices.
• Believe that total volume of trade was unchangeable.