Chapter 15 Flashcards
What is the name of the economic system that was based on countries exporting more goods than they imported?
Mercantilism
Who invented the compass and astrolabe?
Henry the Navigator
Who was the first person to circum-navigate the globe in 1519?
Ferdinand Magellan
Who agreed to fund Columbus’s voyage for a route to India across the Atlantic?
Queen Isabella
Who discovered North America?
Christopher Columbus
Who mistakenly rounded Africa’s Cape of Good Hope - entering the Indian Ocean?
BARTHOLOMEW Dias
Who was the first to sail around Africa to India?
Vasco da Gama
Who created the dividing line that gave lands to the east to Portugal and lands to the west of the line to Spain?
Pope Alexander VI
What was the predominant form of trade for Europe before 1500?
They would travel Over land
Where did Christopher Columbus land on his first trip?
The Bahamas
What effect did the discovery of the New World have on Spain?
It put Portugal and Spain in direct competition for new land?
How did Portugal solve its labor shortages?
With the slave trade
How did the Church respond to new opportunities for conversion?
Missionaries
What are some obstacles the missionaries faced?
1) the large distances they had to travel ( villages were spread far part compared to Europe)
2) the climate was different than what they were used to
3) it was difficult to speak to the native people due to the different languages
4) the medicine men or native priest and their was of teaching and beliefs
5) they had trouble adapting to the different customs and traditions
