WHII Unit 2

Question 1

Prince Henry

Answer 1

started a school for navigators

Question 2

Vasco da Gama

Answer 2

Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route

Question 3

Line of Demarcation

Answer 3

line set by Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the non-European world into two zones one by Spain and one by Portugal

Question 4

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 4

Treaty signed between Spain and Portugal that divided the non-European world between them

Question 5

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 5

Sailed around the world

Question 6

circumnavigate

Answer 6

To go around the world

Question 7

Affonso I

Answer 7

Ruler of the Kongo in west-central Africa who wanted to create a modern Christian state by converting Africans to Christians. He also wanted to stop the slave trade, but was unsuccessful

Question 8

Cape Town

Answer 8

Seaport city and capital of South Africa, the first Dutch country of Africa

Question 9

Boers

Answer 9

Dutch people who settled in Cape Town

Question 10

Dutch East India Company

Answer 10

A trade company established by the Netherlands to protect the trade in Asia

Question 11

sovereign

Answer 11

having full independent power

Question 12

Matteo Ricci

Answer 12

An Italian Jesuit who by his knowledge of Astronomy and science was accepted as a missionary of China

Question 13

The Manchus & The Qing Dynasty

Answer 13

Manchus took over the Ming and ruled as the Qing Dynasty

Question 14

Conquistadors

Answer 14

Spanish Explorer who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain

Question 15

Hernan Cortes

Answer 15

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

Question 16

Moctezuma

Answer 16

Aztec Ruler, mistook Cortes to be god and welcomed him into the empire. Offered him gifts, but was killed nonetheless

Question 17

Fransisco Pizarro

Answer 17

Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533

Question 18

ecomiendas

Answer 18

Right to demand labor from native americans

Question 19

triangular trade

Answer 19

A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

Question 20

captialism

Answer 20

economic system where private individuals own and control means of production with very little government interference

Question 21

Entrpeneurs

Answer 21

risk taker to in hopes of profit and does something new with the exsisting resources