Midterm (Q3) Flashcards
What was the purpose of the Treaty of Tordesillas signed by Portugal and Spain?
To move the line of demarcation further west so that Portugal would have more land.
The Line of Demarcation established a boundary between which two regions?
Portugal and Spain (new world east and west).
As part of the Columbian Exchange, what was carried west across the Atlantic to the Americas?
Wheat, grapes, livestock, horses, bananas, coffee, tea, sugarcane, ivory, silk, perfume, hammocks.
Name four things that aided the Spanish in conquering the Aztecs?
Horses, disease, weapons, natives.
How did Bartolemé de Las Casas affect race relations in the Americas?
Caused the move that led to the adoption of slave labor from Africa.
According to the balance of trade, how could a nation increase its wealth?
Sell more than they buy.
Name three reasons the Spanish Conquistadors were motivated to explore.
Money, land, Christianity.
Who was the man honored for suggesting that Columbus had discovered a ‘New World’?
Amerigo Vespucci.
Which of the following people introduced the grid system to map making?
Ptolemy.
Where was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas established?
Jamestown.
What was the primary reason for the decrease of the native population in Spanish colonies?
Disease.
Who was the first European sailor to reach India by sailing around the southern tip of Africa?
Vasco de Gama.
Which early European explorer is the first to sail around the southern tip of South America?
Ferdinand Magellan.
Who inspired the Age of Exploration by recruiting sailors to search for a water route to the eastern spice trade areas?
Prince Henry the Navigator.
Which early European explorer was the first to see the Pacific Ocean and name it the South Sea?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa.
Name three improvements to navigation that were introduced during the early years of the Age of Exploration.
Lateen sail, multiple masts, stern rudder, astrolabe, better maps, the grid system.
During the Atlantic Slave trade, which group made up the majority of kidnapped African individuals?
Men.
Name three things that happened to enslaved Africans.
Inspected, spoken of, sold like livestock, mistreated.
Name three character traits that describe African society.
Trade structures, family structures, history was important and there were universities.
Name three ways that the African slave trade impacted African society.
Populations began to diminish, Africans turned on each other and enslaved each other, messed up the trade of African products.
Name three reasons why Malinali was important to Cortes.
Communicated with foreigners and local tribes, explained Aztec culture and showed him around the area, Cortes’s translator.
Name three ways that African women were treated on slave ships.
Allowed to have baths, beaten, sexually assaulted.
What happened to the enslaved Africans after they arrived in the New World?
Forced to be inspected and sold to work.
In general, what did the philosophes believe and promote?
They believed in scientific reason. They promoted that God provided the laws and then allowed the world to run on its own.
