Chapter Three

Question 1

Book on the Marvels of the World

Answer 1

written by de pisa

introduces/ motivates explorers to the riches of Asia

Question 2

Portolani

Answer 2

compass, charts, gunpowder, lug sail

Question 3

Gold, God, Glory

Answer 3

Motivation for conquering native societies

Question 4

Reconquista

Answer 4

A continuation of crusading mentality

Reconquering of the Iberian Peninsula

Cut out Muslim traders

Question 5

Edict of Expulsion

Answer 5

Spread Christianity

Question 6

Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 6

explored west Africa

Failed attempt to convert Muslims

returned with gold, sugar cane, slaves

Question 7

Bartolomeu Dias

Answer 7

Attempted to sail around the tip of Africa

Question 8

Vasco de Gama

Answer 8

First European to reach India by sea

Question 9

Alfonso de Alburquerque

Answer 9

Founded the city of Goa

• Seized control fo spice trade
• Spread Christianity

Question 10

Goa

Answer 10

Indian Headquarters

Question 11

Pedro Cabral

Answer 11

Claimed Brazil and made sugarcane plantations

Question 12

Ferdinand and Isabella

Answer 12

From (Aragon and Castile)

Unified Spain

Wanted riches to spread christianity

Question 13

Christopher Columbus

Answer 13

Sponsored by the Spanish crown after being denied by Italy and Portugal

Sails west to discover shortcut

Reaches Bahamas and Cuba (Through he hit Japan and Indonesia)

Question 14

Amerigo Vespucci

Answer 14

Realized the Christopher Columbus “New World” was not Asia

America is named after him

Question 15

Waldseemuller Map

Answer 15

First map based on Vespucci’s stories

Question 16

Vasco Nunez Balboa

Answer 16

Explore Panama; crosses the Isthmus of Panama; sees the pacific ocean

Question 17

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 17

Goal to circumnavigate the world

Sets out with 280 men

Passes Southern tip of south America

Claimed the Philippines

Question 18

Phillippines

Answer 18

Claimed by Ferdinand Magellan as the first Spanish claimed Island in Asia

Question 19

El Cano

Answer 19

18 men return to Spain after Magellan’s circumnavigation

Question 20

Viceroys

Answer 20

vice - king ; kind of like a colony

Question 21

New Spain

Answer 21

California to Panama (Mexico city capital) First viceroy

Question 22

Peru

Answer 22

Panama through South America (Cuzco capital)

Question 23

Encomienda

Answer 23

Extreme labor system imposed on the indigenous people; similar to slavery

Question 24

Bartolome de las Casas

Answer 24

wrote a book advocating against encomienda

led to the pope abolishing the encomienda

Question 25

Repartimiento

Answer 25

Second labor system put in place by the Spanish

Spaniards collected an annual tax which forced people to work hard to earn more money

Question 26

new Amsterdam

Answer 26

Banking, trading, shipping center set up by the Dutch ( New York City)

Question 27

John Cabot

Answer 27

Hired to sail to Newfoundland (modern day Canadian Povince)

Question 28

Jamestown

Answer 28

1st successful New World colony; tobacco became their gold