Chapter __; Exploration Vocabulary

Question 1

Portuguese explorer who rounded the tip of Africa.

Answer 1

Bartolomen Dias

Question 2

Portuguese supporter of exploration.

Answer 2

Prince Henry

Question 3

Explorer who gave Portugal a direct sea route to India.

Answer 3

Vasco da Gamma

Question 4

Treaty between Portugal and Spain dividing newly discovered lands between them.

Answer 4

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 5

Dutch company that established and directed trade through Asia.

Answer 5

Dutch East India Company

Question 6

Italian explorer who landed in the Americas.

Answer 6

Christopher Columbus

Question 7

Land controlled by another nation.

Answer 7

Colony

Question 8

Conquistador who defeated the Aztec.

Answer 8

Hernando Cortes

Question 9

Spanish explorers in the Americas.

Answer 9

Conquistadors

Question 10

Conquistador who defeated the Inca.

Answer 10

Francisco Pizarro

Question 11

Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.

Answer 11

Atlantic Slave trade

Question 12

European trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe involving slaves and other goods.

Answer 12

Triangular Trade

Question 13

Voyage that brought captured Africans to the west Indies and the Americas.

Answer 13

Middle Passage

Question 14

Global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas.

Answer 14

Colombian Exchange

Question 15

Economic system based on private ownership and the investment of wealth for profit.

Answer 15

Capitalism

Question 16

Company in which people pooled their wealth for a common purpose.

Answer 16

Joint-Stock Company

Question 17

Economic policy of increasing the wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and selling more good than they bought.

Answer 17

Mercantilism

Question 18

Condition resulting from selling more goods than are bought.

Answer 18

Favorable balance of trade