Chapters 14 & 15

Question 1

Trades across the Atlantic with slaves.

Answer 1

Transatlantic Slave trade

Question 2

Most valued trade item

Answer 2

Spice

Question 3

Were known as the “Spice Islands”

Answer 3

Moluccas

Question 4

American-born descendants of Spanish settlers.

Answer 4

Creole

Question 5

First European permanent settlement in Africa.

Answer 5

Cape Town.

Question 6

_ Had the right to everything to the East and had a power status of world power because of this

Answer 6

Portugal and spice trade.

Question 7

They wanted to gain trade with__________ but their textiles and works were inferior

Answer 7

European access to Asia.

Question 8

Spanish conquerors

Answer 8

Conquistadores

Question 9

when a country exports more goods than it imports in order to build up their supply of gold and silver.

Answer 9

Mercantilism

Question 10

Mapmakers

Answer 10

Cartographers

Question 11

sovereign powers

Answer 11

Dutch East India trading company

Question 12

rounded the southern tip of Africa

Answer 12

Bartholomeu Dias

Question 13

___________ demands for gold, not goods.

Answer 13

China

Question 14

set sail in 1492

Reached the Caribbean Islands now is the area called West Indies

Answer 14

Columbus.

Question 15

divided the world into two zones

Answer 15

Line of demarcation.

Question 16

Latin word for peaceful

Answer 16

Pacific

Question 17

an economic policy aimed at strengthening national economies(vast global exchange)

Answer 17

Colombian exchange

Question 18

Sail around the world

Answer 18

Circumnavigate

Question 19

bow with forehead to ground, sign of RESPECT to emperor of China.

Answer 19

Kowtow

Question 20

Korean policy

Answer 20

Isolated

Question 21

Cycle in americas

Answer 21

Encounter, conquest, death

Question 22

When Columbus first discovered the Americas, he encountered these people.

Answer 22

Taino

Question 23

Spanish disadvantages natives weakness

Answer 23

Guns, horses, disease; no immunities.

Question 24

The promise of great riches prompted _________ to explore the coast of South America.

Answer 24

Hernan Cortes

Question 25

Aztec emperor

Answer 25

Moctezuma

Question 26

the capital of the Aztec Empire)

Answer 26

Tenochtitlan

Question 27

who sent reporters to Spain to plead the cause of natives.

Answer 27

Bartolome de las casas

Question 28

a mix of European and African bloods.

Answer 28

Mulattoes

Question 29

nickname for the trade ships up to half of the Africans on board died from disease and/or brutal mistreatment

Answer 29

“Floating coffins”