Chapter 22 Vocab

Question 0

Lateen sails

Answer 0

Sails that allowed sailors to take full advantage of winds

Question 1

Vasco da Gama

Answer 1

The first person to go around the tip of Africa to reach India

Question 2

Astrolabe

Answer 2

A device used to measure latitude

Question 3

Wind wheels

Answer 3

A device that moved by wind coming in through it

Question 4

Volta do mar

Answer 4

A Portuguese sailing tactic that took you off course to come back on course

Question 5

Vivaldi brothers

Answer 5

Two brothers who searched for a passage to India from Europe

Question 6

Tainos

Answer 6

Native Mexican people

Question 7

Vasco Nunez de balboa

Answer 7

The first explorer to see eastern pacific shores

Question 8

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 8

The first explorer to circumnavigate the world

Question 9

Sir Francis drake

Answer 9

The first Englishman to circumnavigate the world

Question 10

Vitus Bering

Answer 10

A Dutch explorer who wanted to see if Asia and North America were connected by land

Question 11

Captain James cook

Answer 11

The first to explore Polynesian islands

Question 12

Seven years war

Answer 12

Also know as the REAL. First World War

Question 13

Afonso d’Albuquerque

Answer 13

A Portuguese explored and conquerer

Question 14

English East Indian trading company

Answer 14

An English joint stock company

Question 15

Dutch east India company

Answer 15

A Dutch joint stock company

Question 16

Trading post empires

Answer 16

Countries that set up trade posts ad soon took land around their trading posts and charged other countries fees to use their posts

Question 17

Philippines and Manilla

Answer 17

A country run by the Spanish that the capital city of Manila became a huge trading outpost

Question 18

Java

Answer 18

Another major Spanish trading out post

Question 19

Siberia

Answer 19

The colonization by criminals and in wanted people

Question 20

Columbia. Exchange

Answer 20

An worldwide exchange of biological goods