Vocabulary 11-15-16

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

Question 2

Colony

Answer 2

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Question 3

Mercantilism

Answer 3

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

Question 4

Balance of Trade

Answer 4

the difference in value between a country’s imports and exports.

Question 5

The Compass

Answer 5

an instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.

Question 6

Joint Stock Comlany

Answer 6

a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.

Question 7

Triangular Trade

Answer 7

a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

Question 8

Columbian Exchange

Answer 8

a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds

Question 9

Middle Passage

Answer 9

the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

Question 10

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 10

agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers

Question 11

Henry the Navigator

Answer 11

was an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.

Question 12

Christopher Columbus

Answer 12

An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492

Question 13

Vasco de Gama

Answer 13

Portuguese explorer. He led the first European expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, sighting and naming Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean and arriving in Calicut in 1498.

Question 14

Hernan Cortes

Answer 14

a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of .

Question 15

Zheng He

Answer 15

was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China’s early Ming dynasty

Question 16

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 16

a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522

Question 17

Spice Trade

Answer 17

to the trade between historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe

Question 18

Encomienda System

Answer 18

legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies

Question 19

Dutch East India Company

Answer 19

was originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade

Question 20

Arawak

Answer 20

a member of a people originally of the Greater Antilles and adjacent South America, now living mainly in Guiana. They were forced out of the Antilles by the more warlike Caribs shortly before Spanish expansion in the Caribbean

Question 21

The Philippines

Answer 21

of or relating to the Philippines

Question 22

Fort Jesus Mombasa

Answer 22

a Portuguese fort located on Mombasa Island. It was built between 1593 and 1596, by order of King Philip I of Portugal, to guard the Old Port of Mombasa, Kenya

Question 23

Kongo Kingdom

Answer 23

Basin of the Congo (Zaire) river, conglomeration of several village alliances, participated actively in trade networks, most centralized rule of the early Bantu kingdoms, royal currency: cowries, ruled 14th-17th century until undermined by Portuguese slave traders.

Question 24

Menin Tribe

Answer 24

a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader