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World History Ch. 13
The Age of Exploration, 1500-1800
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| What does the phrase "God, glory, gold" mean? | the chief motives for European expansion: to convert the natives, for adventure, and for the riches that could be obtained |
| Spanish conquerors of the Americas were known as | conquistadors |
| What was the impact of the Spanish settlement on the Native Americans? | majority of the natives quickly died off as a result of violence, forced labor, starvation, and disease |
| what was crucial in creating a new age of commercial capitalism, one of the first steps in the development of the world economy? | international trade |
| Spanish conquistador who explored South America and found the Incan Empire | Francisco Pizarro |
| Spanish conquistador who established himself in the Philippine Islands; Spanish ships carried silver from Mexico to the Philippines and returned to Mexico with silk and other luxury goods | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Spanish explorer who he thought he could sail west and reach Asia, but landed on the coast of Cuba, then reached major islands of the Caribbean | Christopher Columbus |
| What products were sent from the Americas to Europe? | silver, dyes, gold, cotton, vanilla, hides, potatoes, cocoa, corn, tabacco |
| a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century; which emphasized the accumulation of bullion through government involvement in the promotion of industries and trade | merchantilism |
| what affected Africa and saw a dramatic rise in the 16th century due to European expansion? | slave trade |
| many of the slaves were sent to Brazil and the Caribbean to work on what kind of plantations? | sugarcane plantations |
| European merchant ships carried European manufactured goods (guns, cloth) to Africa, here they were traded for a cargo of slaves. Slaves were then shipped to Americas and sold. this pattern of trade is called | triangular trade |
| the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas became known as | the Middle Passage; middle portion of the triangular trade route |
| what was the most common form of government thought Africa? What other political systems existed? | monarchy; collection of small principalities, political units led by village leader |
| what were some of the effects of the slave trade on the culture of Benin, and African state? | population decline, warfare increased, people lost faith in gods, art deteriorated, human sacrifice |
| why were Europeans interested in Southeast Asia? | the spice trade |
| this was known to the Europeans as the Spice Islands and were the chief source of spices that had originally attracted the Portuguese to the Indian Ocean | the Moluccas |
| the Portuguese occupied the Moluccas, but were pushed out by who? | the Dutch; extended their control over the entire area |
| why did the Portuguese decide to only set up small settlements in the Moluccas? | they lacked military and financial resources |
| a body of non-elective government officials | bureaucracy |
| the major impact of Islam came in the 15th century with the rise of the new sultanate at Melaka. Where was Melaka located? | on the Malay Penincula |
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