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World History Ch 14
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The early cartographers made: | maps that aided in navigation and led to new discoveries |
| Support for Portuguese exploration was led by: | Prince Henry |
| An Italian navigator who sailed for Spain was: | Christopher Columbus |
| The chief source of spices from Asia was the island chain called the: | Moluccas |
| The first European explorer to reach India was: | Vasco da Gama |
| Who controlled trade between Asia and Europe in the 1400s? | Arabs and Italians |
| Summarize Portuguese discoveries: | They sailed to India by going around the coast of Africa |
| What critical mistake did Columbus make when he left Spain in 1492? | He greatly underestimated the size of the Earth |
| What was the Line of Demarcation? | A line drawn by the pope that divided the non-European world |
| Who commanded the expedition that circled the globe? | Ferdinand Magellan |
| Term for a large farming estate | plantation |
| Term for exclusive control of a business or industry | monopoly |
| Term for a person who wants to convert others to a religion | missionary |
| The first permanent European settlement in Africa was: | Cape Town |
| Which empire settled by the Yoruba people of present-day Nigeria? | Oyo empire |
| Where did the Portuguese established a major presence in the 1400s? | on the coasts of Africa |
| How did Europeans usually obtain slaves? | They exchanged European goods for slaves |
| Who is known for appealing to Europeans to stop the slave trade? | King Affonso I |
| Who was Osei Tutu? | The powerful king of the Asante |
| The Boers were: | Dutch farmers |
| Europeans formed armies of Indian soldiers, or: | sepoys |
| Muslim rulers from Central Asia created which empire in India | Mughal empire |
| Because the natives were not united, Spain easily conquered the: | Philippines |
| The Portuguese military in India was led by: | Alfonso de Albuquerque |
| In 1510, the Portuguese seized the island of: | Goa |
| The first European country to gain a foothold in Asia was: | Portugal |
| A key link in the Spanish overseas trading empire was the: | Philippines |
| How did the Dutch East India Company come to dominate Asian trade? | It had sovereign powers |
| The Mughal empire before 1700 was: | larger and richer than any country in Europe |
| As the Mughal empire weakened, who fought for control of India? | the British and the French |
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