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Exploration 2016
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Atlantic Slave Trade | As a result of this, many cultures lost their fittest members and families were torn apart. |
| Mercantilism | According to this policy, a nation could increase its wealth by selling more goods than it buys from other countries. |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | He urged better treatment of Native Americans but proposed using African laborers. |
| They steadily increased. | What happened to prices of goods in Europe, as a result of the financial success of American colonies? |
| It was based on race and was hereditary | How was slavery in the Americas different from slavery in African and Muslim societies. |
| Portugal | Which European country was the leader in developing and applying 15th century sailing innovations? |
| Shipwrecked Portuguese sailors | The first Europeans to arrive on Japanese soil |
| caravel | It was an important development in navigation because it was able to sail against the wind. |
| China | Korea was a vassal state to this Asian nation during the 1700s. |
| closed country policy | Policy instituted by Japan to control foreign ideas. |
| Hongwu | He overthrew the Mongols and established the Ming Dynasty, helping China to become a dominant power. |
| Bartolomeu Dias | Captained the first European ship to sail around the tip of Africa, now known as the Cape of Good Hope. |
| China | During the 1500s, this country only allwed the government to trade with foreign countries. |
| severe shortage of labor in the colonies | Result of the loss of native lives to disease |
| New Netherland | The reason the English wanted to take control of this location was that it separated England's northern and southern colonies. |
| Spain | The first country to import enslaved Africans to the Americas. |
| potatoes | Carried west across the Atlantic as a part of the Columbian exchange. |
| New York | Originally settled by the Dutch. |
| encomienda system | Assumed that the Europeans had the right to demand labor from Native Americans |
| spread of Islam in Africa | What helped to increase the slave trade in Africa during the 7th Century? |
| Aztecs | Disease, native enemies, and superior weapons helped the Spanish to conquer them. |
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| grow wealthy and spread Christianity | Europeans' main motives for making voyages of exploration |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | Who was upset by the success of Christian missionaries because he feared religious uprisings and Christian interference in politics? |
| daimyo | Whose power was a major barrier that hindered effective centralized government in Japan? |
| Warring States period | The introduction of European firearms in Japan was successful because it corresponded with what? |
| Prince Henry | Who influenced exploration by founding a navigational school on the coast of Portugal? |
| China | What nation rejected British offers of trade because it believed it was self-sufficient and didn't need outside goods? |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu | Completed the long process of unifying Japan |
| military government | The Tokugawa Shogunate was a type of ______. |
| the Netherlands | By the 1700s, this nation's East India Company dominated the Indian Ocean trade. |
| Line of Demarcation | It established a boundary between new lands Portugal could claim and those Spain could claim. |
| Vasco da Gama | Who succeeded in gaining a sea route between Portugal and India? |
| spices | The most important trade good from the East in the 1400s. |
| Italy | European nation that profited most from trade with the East in the years directly following the Crusades. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | It was signed chiefly to decrease conflict between Portugal and Spain over claiming new lands. |
| new wealth from the Americas and the growth in overseas trade | What prompted a wave of new businesses and trade practices in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries? |
| encomienda | The ________ system provided a cheap labor source for New Spain. |
| Caribbean Sea | Christopher Columbus first landed on an island in the _______. |
| joint-stock companies | The purpose of most of these in the 1500s and 1600s was funding colonies in the Americas. |
| Africans | Europeans saw ______ as a better source of labor than Native Americans because they were strangers in the Americas, so they wouldn't have allies or places to hide. |
| Hernando Cortes | Conquered the Aztec empire |
| building a fur trade | The main economic activity in New France |
| alternate attendance policy | Tokugawa Ieyasu used this to control the daimyo |
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