Chapters 14 & 15 Flashcards
Trades across the Atlantic with slaves.
Transatlantic Slave trade
Most valued trade item
Spice
Were known as the “Spice Islands”
Moluccas
American-born descendants of Spanish settlers.
Creole
First European permanent settlement in Africa.
Cape Town.
_ Had the right to everything to the East and had a power status of world power because of this
Portugal and spice trade.
They wanted to gain trade with__________ but their textiles and works were inferior
European access to Asia.
Spanish conquerors
Conquistadores
when a country exports more goods than it imports in order to build up their supply of gold and silver.
Mercantilism
Mapmakers
Cartographers
sovereign powers
Dutch East India trading company
rounded the southern tip of Africa
Bartholomeu Dias
___________ demands for gold, not goods.
China
set sail in 1492
Reached the Caribbean Islands now is the area called West Indies
Columbus.
divided the world into two zones
Line of demarcation.
Latin word for peaceful
Pacific
an economic policy aimed at strengthening national economies(vast global exchange)
Colombian exchange
Sail around the world
Circumnavigate
bow with forehead to ground, sign of RESPECT to emperor of China.
Kowtow
Korean policy
Isolated
Cycle in americas
Encounter, conquest, death
When Columbus first discovered the Americas, he encountered these people.
Taino
Spanish disadvantages natives weakness
Guns, horses, disease; no immunities.
The promise of great riches prompted _________ to explore the coast of South America.
Hernan Cortes