Ws Flashcards
Chief source of spices an island chain in present day Indonesia which Europeans then called the spice islands
Moluccas
Led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal
Prince Henry
Map makers
Cartographer
Portuguese navigator who lead four ships around the cape of good hope
Vasco de gama
Italian navigator from genoa wanted to reach the East Indies by sailing west across the indies
Christopher Colombus
Dividing the non European world into two zones, Spain had trading and exploration rights in any lands west of the line. Portugal had the same rigjts east of the line
Line of demarcation
Specific terms of the line of demarcation were agreed to and signed by the two counties in 1494
Treaty of tordesillas
Set out from Spain with 5 ships to find a way to reach the pacfic ocean on September 20, 1519. Portuguese man
Ferdinand Magellan
Sail around the world
Circumnavigate
East African coastal city
Mombasa
East African coastal city
Malindi
Large estates run by an owner or an owners overseerer
Plantation
Ruler of Congo in west Centeal Africa
Affonso
Hoped to convert Africans to Christianity
Missionary
emerged in the area occupied by present day Ghana
Asante kingdom
Military leader won control of the trading city of Kumasi
Osci tutu
The exclusive control of a business or industry
Monopoly
Arose from successive waves of settlement by the yoruba people of present day Nigeria
Oyo empire
The first permanent European settlement. To supply ships sailing to or from the East Indies
Cape Town
Dutch Farmers settled around Cape Town
Boers
What factors encouraged European exploration
Reanasacne curiosity
Spices
Motivation to spread Christianity
Desire to gain glory
What did Portuguese footholds do
Built small forts to collect food and water and to repair their ships
established trading sites to trade tools such as muskets
Attached milindi and mombasa
Africans resisted exploration
What did Slave trade do
Bought salves to perform labor on their plantations
Captives were exchanged for guns and gunpowder and tobacco and metal work
Traders shipped thousands of captives across the Atlantic
Slavs were considered property
What did new African states do
Loss of many people resulting in small states disappearing
Arose new states which depended on slave trade
