Chapter 15 VTP

Question 1

Cartographers

Answer 1

Map makers

Question 2

Matrilineal

Answer 2

Kinship ties are traced through the mother

Question 3

Indian Ocean

Answer 3

Used by the Portuguese in the spice trade

Question 4

Circumnavigate

Answer 4

To travel all the way around the earth

Question 5

Columbus

Answer 5

And Italian navigator who obtained Spanish support to reach the Indies by sailing west across the Atlantic

Although he thought he had reached the Indies, he actually had found a route to the Caribbean islands

Question 6

Astrolabe

Answer 6

An instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars

Question 7

Patrilineal

Answer 7

Kinship ties are traced through the father

Question 8

Outposts

Answer 8

Distant military stations

Question 9

Magellan

Answer 9

A Portuguese nobleman who was the first to circumnavigate the world

Question 10

Hermit kingdom

Answer 10

Refers to any country/society that walls itself off (isolates itself) from the rest of the world

Question 11

Scurvy

Answer 11

A disease caused by the lack of vitamin C in someone’s diet

Question 12

Dutch East India Company

Answer 12

Formed by a group of wealthy Dutch merchants and 1602

Were able to enforce a monopoly on trade in the Spice Islands