Chpt 2 Age of Exploration Flashcards
Kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade
Asante
Someone sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country
Missionary
Complete control of a product or business by one person or group
Monopoly
Line set by the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the non-European world into two zones, one controlled by Spain and the other by Portugal
Line of Demarcation
A person who makes maps
Cartographer
Having full, independent power
Sovereign
To travel completely around the world
Circumnavigate
Dynasty established by the Manchus in the mid-1600s that lasted until the early 1900s; China’s last dynasty
Qing
An island chain in present-day Indonesia, which Europeans in the 1400s called the Spice Islands because it was the chief source of spices
Moluccas
Large estate run by an overseer and worked by laborers who live there
Plantation
The first permanent European settlement in Africa, established by the Dutch in 1652
Cape Town
Yoruba people formed this state in present-day southwestern Nigeria in the 1600s. This empire used wealth from trade, including slave trading, to maintain a trained army and to eventually conquer the neighboring Dahomey kingdom. The Yoruba people then traded with European merchants from Dahomey’s ports.
Oyo
Indian soldier who served in an army set up by the French or English trading companies
Sepoys
Muslim empire that ruled most of northern India from the mid-1500s to the mid-1700s; also known as the Mogul empire
Mughal
A trading company established with full sovereign powers by the Netherlands in 1602 to protect and expand its trade in Asia
Dutch East India Company
