Trading Post Empire Vocab Flashcards

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Malacca

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  • Ferdinand Magellan and Portuguese conquest

* Malayan spice port

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Spice Islands (Molaccas)

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Islands, Southeast Asia, present day Indonesia

•source of (majority) spice trade

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Tumasik (Temasek) (Singapore)

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Early city in modern Singapore

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Zheng He

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Chinese Muslim admiral who led the Chinese expeditions 1400s

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Ming Dynasty Yongle

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  • forbidden city
  • trade with Europeans
  • old Chinese ways : civil service, Neo Confucianism
  • expanded boarders
  • change due to western contact
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Chinese junker

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Type of ship, high stern/sails made of panels

Sturdy/large

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Dhow

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Arab vessel

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Crusades

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Holy wars, Christian army campaign, purpose: take back the Holy Land and other eastern territories

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Marco Polo

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Venetian merchant/ adventurer, 24 year journey into Central Asia. 1st to document geography, gov and religions of regions

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Marco Polo / Kublai Khan

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Met Kublai Khan, invited to royal court, became his ambassador

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Songhai

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10 centuries
•absolute monarchy, system of admin
•ethnic group, controlled export industry,
•Gao=admin city
•Mali captured Gao, Songhai – vassal state

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Timbuktu

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  • center of trade

* Mansa Musa – center of religion/edu

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Gao

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Admin city of Songhai

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Sonni Ali

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Captures Timbuktu, founded Songhai empire

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Askia Muhammed

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Askia the Great
Emperor of Songhai in 1442-1538
Expands Songhai empire to largest country in West Africa

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“God, glory, gold”

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Primary motives for European expansion overseas

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portugal, encouraged overseas voyages

Motives: new trade routes, possible attract route for Moors, advances in ship building /navigational aid

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Moctezuma II (Montezuma)

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Last Aztec emperor b4 Spanish

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Bartolomeu Dias

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  • Portuguese
  • Cape of Good Hope, open sea route to India
  • not much is known besides tht
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Vasco da Gama

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  • Portuguese

* Calicut, India. Opened major trade route for spice trade and gems

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Cape of good hope

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  • southern tip of Africa

* Bartolomeu Dias

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Calicut

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  • important Indian trading center

* Vasco da Gama

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Astrolabe

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  • used by seafarers/ astronomers

* determined the position of celestial bodies

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Compass

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Allowed seafarers to determine direction, better than North Star in cloudy conditions
•created by Chinese

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Admiral Afonso de Alburquerque

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  • Portuguese noble
  • governor in India
  • founder of Portuguese imperial system
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Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain

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Sponsored Columbus’ expedition

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Granada

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One of the 5 provinces of Spain (1400s)

Languages & gov differed among provinces

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Christopher Columbus

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  • Italian, explored for Spain
  • 1492 Caribbean
  • mass genocide
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Ferdinand Magellan

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  • Portuguese, explored for Spain

* 1st to circumnavigate globe

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Philippines

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  • strategic location, Western colonization

* 1st European = Magellan

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East India Companies

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Dutch East India Company:
Netherlands
focused on Dutch East Indies (region of Asia = Indonesia)

British East India Company:
England (Queen Elisabeth I), traded with wealthy Asian kingdoms, responsible for British Indian conquest

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Pope Alexander VI

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Established the Line of Demarcation

Portuguese dissatisfaction led to the Treaty of Tordesillas

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Amerigo Vespucci

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Whom America is named
Didn’t discover new world
Florentine merchant / navigator 1500s

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John Cabot

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  • Italian
  • discovered North America
  • led to British colonies
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Pedro Cabral

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  • Portuguese navigator

- discovered Brazil

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Tenochtitlan

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Aztec capital
Lake Texcoco, present day Mexico City
Very urban, largest pop in Mesoamerica

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Quetzalcoatl

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Feathered serpent god, Mayan

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Measles / smallpox

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Pathogens, 1600s America
Brought by explorers
Helped European govs dominate indigenous

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Syphilis

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Chronic, degenerative, sexually transmitted disease

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Venereal disease

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STDs

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Jesuits

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  • society of Jesus

- suppressed and expelled a lot

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Asante

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Asante Empire: dominant center of West African trade Europe

-gold, ivory, guns, slaves

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Bartolome de las casas

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1st crusader advocate for human rights in New World

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Juana Ines de la Cruz

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Greatest Spanish poet/ writer

Feminist in a patriarchal time

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La Malinche

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Indigenous woman

  • served as Hernando Cortes’s indispensable interpreter, negotiator, navigator, and mistress
  • part in fall of Aztec, Spanish conquest, Mestizo
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Zacatecas

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Largest silver deposit found in New World

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Hacienda

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Large agricultural estate in Latin America, peasants = labor

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Bullion

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Gold bars, silver bars, other bars of precious metal

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Maize

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Corn

Americas - Europeans

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Boers / Afrikaners

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Dutch colonists in South Africa

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Cape Town

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South African port city

SW coast

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Chattel

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Slavery of Nee World, slaves = private property / beasts of burden

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Kongo

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Kongo empire

  • most powerful
  • 1st Catholicized sub-Saharan African state
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Captain James Cook

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1700s
3 voyages to Pacific
Detailed surveys, added to European knowledge of region

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Benin

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Western Africa, north narrow strip, southern coastline along Atlantic Ocean

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Batik

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Creative design on fabrics, found in Indonesian & Southeast Asian Art

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Java

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Southeast Asian island 
Near Indonesia (spice islands)
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Mercator Projection

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Gerardus Mercator

-rendered latitude / longitude with straight lines, accurate ratio between 2 , guide ships w/o readjusting compass

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Convoy system

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Provided armed escort vessels for trading systems

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Council of the Indies

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Created to study and make policy for the new world, advise the king, and settle important court cases

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Indentured servitude

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Landowner paid to transport, house, and feed a person from Europe. They would work for him for 7-14 years

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Racism

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The belief that different races have specific qualities that make them either superior or inferior

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Cassava

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Brazilian manihot esculenta, woody shrub spurge family (food)

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Vodun

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(Voodoo) blend of Catholicism and other African beliefs

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Viceroyalty

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Territories governed by a viceroy

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Inquisition

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Institution founded by the Catholic Church to combat heresy (anything that conflicted with Catholicism)

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Protestant work ethic

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Encourages hard work, extension of Christian principles / practices

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Quebec

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North America

France, trading city (pretty furs)

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Amerindians

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Indigenous of the Americas

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Triangle Trade / Great Circuit

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Slave trade

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Dahomey

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Powerful West African state

- location = Benin