unit 4 vocab

Question 1

primogeniture laws

Answer 1

laws that gave all of each estate to the eldest son

Question 2

Omani-European rivalry

Answer 2

Portuguese set up forts in Oman but were repeatedly challenged by attempts to remove them

Question 3

cartography

Answer 3

mapmaking

Question 4

astronomic chart

Answer 4

any map of the stars and galaxies

Question 5

maritime empires

Answer 5

empires based on sea travel

Question 6

mercantilism

Answer 6

theory of trying to gain as much money from other countries through selling, and buy less in order to give them less money

Question 7

trading post empire

Answer 7

trading empire based on small outposts, rather than control of large territories

Question 8

Manila

Answer 8

Spanish commercial center in Philippines that attracted Chinese merchants and others

Question 9

Prince Henry the Navigator

Answer 9

first European monarch to sponsor seafaring expeditions

Question 10

galleons

Answer 10

heavily armed Spanish ships that made stops in the Philippines

Question 11

Christopher Columbus

Answer 11

explorer credited for “discovering the New World”

Question 12

Bartholomew Diaz

Answer 12

sailed around the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, into waters his crew did not know

Question 13

Vasca Da Gama

Answer 13

explorer who sailed farther east than Bartholomew Diaz and claimed territory in India for Portugal