Chapter 6 Flashcards
The treaty separating Spain & Portugal
Treaty or tordesellias
Who established the line of demarcation?
Pope Alexander the 6th
What was the name of the set of principals that dominated the economic thought in the 17th century?
Mercantilism
Who went to their grave believe they found India when really they found the Americas?
Christopher Columbus
What circumnavigated the world in 1520?
Ferdinand Magellan
The journey of the slaves from Africa to the Americas
The middle passage
The right of the Spanish settlers to use Native Americans as laborers
Encomienda system
The Italian seaman who discovered the Bahamas, Cuba, and Hispaniola
Christopher Columbus
Extremely profitable item from Asia
Spice
Explorer who discovered Mexico in 1519
Hernando Cortez
Vasco de Gama discovery of a route to India by sea resulted in what
Several thousand percent profit
The Dutch tried to dominate the Clive trade by
Limiting clove sale to one island and controlling the trading
Why’s society of eastern Nigeria produced more slaves than any other in the continent of Africa
Ibo
Originally slaves were brought to the Americas to supply labor for the what?
Sugar cane plantations
What were the Moluccas know to the Europeans as the what
Spice islands
What did the treaty of Tordesillas in1494 establish?
Spain = new world Portugal = Brazil and control trading in Africa and in Asia
According to mercantilists the prosperity of the nation is dependent on what?
Bullion gold and silver
Triangular trade
Europe > Africa (guns tools clothes) Africa > Americas (slaves) Americas > Europe (sugar tobacco cotton)
Highly maneuverable sailing ship developed in the 15th century by the Portuguese to explore the west African coast and into the Atlantic Ocean
Caravel
A navigational instrument that measures direction in a frame of reference that is stationary relative to the surface of the earth
Compass
Explorer who discovered Florida in 1513
Juan Ponce de Leon
African society that was ruined because of the slave trade
Congo (Benin)
Explorer who do covered the cape of good hope at the southern tip of Africa in 1488
Bartoleu Dias
Explorer who discovered the South American coast line in 1499
Amerigo Vespucci
Explored New England coastline of the Americas
John Cabot
Explored who discovered Peru in 1531
Francisco Pizarro
To Portuguese explorers tag southern coast of west Africa became known as the what?
Gold Coast
Sailors who coils calculate their location based on the position of the sun and stars in relation to the horizon
The astrolabe
Which Native American civilization did Pizarro conquer?
The incas
Who was the leader at yeah riel of Cortes’ arrival?
Montazuma
How did the Renaissance contribute to the age of exploration?
By awakening a spirit of discovery and innovation in Europe.
The 3 G’s
God Gold Glory
Who circumnavigated the the world?
Ferdinand Magellan
What was a conquistador
Magellan
Vasco de Gama
Which of the following explores was the first to sail around Africa to India?
Vasco de Gama
Ferdinand and Isabella financed the Nina, The Pinta, and the Santa Maria for which explorer?
Christopher Columbus
What narrow strip of land separated the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean
String of Magellan
The global transfer of plant, animals, disease, and food between Eastern and Western hemispheres during the age of exploration
Colombian exchange
What does circumnavigate mean?
To travel around the entire globe.
