Chapter 2: Flashcards
(34 cards)
Portuguese came for-
empire and trade
Spain came for-
land empire and conquest
Portuguese exploration focused on-
Western Africa and trading posts
Spanish exploration led by-
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus seeked
trade routes to India and China
Spanish Motives
Spread Catholicism, Commercial advantage over Portugal
Men looking to conquer people+land in the New World
Conquistadors
Amerigo Vespucci
Person the Americas is named after
Split the world East and West between Portugal and Spain
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494 CE)
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs
Hernan Cortez
Conquered the Inca
Francisco Pizzaro
Powerful royal families in Europe
Hapsburg dynasty
Book that was published during the golden age connecting to what the Spanish found in the New World
Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes
Item sold by church that gives salvation, Taxation
Indulgences
Collection of Luther’s reforms
95 Thesis
Luther’s Protest
Indulgences
John Calvin belief
Calvinism- predistination
The English king who wanted a divorce
Henry VIII
Wanted to restore Catholicism- religious violence in England
“Bloody Mary”
Wanted to restore Protestantism
Elizabeth I
A massive fleet defeated by England (1588)
Spanish Armada
First attempt for England to colonize the New World
Roanoke
Business structure that pools money by selling stock
Join stock companies
First permanent settlement in the New World
Jamestown (1607)