Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
World History Unit 2
Ch. 14-15 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A group of islands in eastern Indonesia; was the center of the spice trade in the 1500's and 1600's | Molucas |
| Who led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal? | Prince Henry |
| Portuguese navigator, who led 4 ships around the Cape of Good Hope | Vasco da Gama |
| Who discovered America in 1492? | Christopher Columbus |
| Line set by the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing non-European world into two zones, one controlled by Spain and the other by Portugal | Line of Demarcation |
| Treaty signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494 which divided the non-European world between them | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| Minor Portuguese nobleman who set out from Spain to find a way to the Pacific | Ferdinand Magellan |
| To travel around the world | Circumnavigate |
| East African coastal cities | Mombasa and Malindi |
| Large estate run by an owner or overseer and worked by laborers who live there | Plantation |
| Ruler of Kongo in west-central Africa, was against slave trade | Affonso I |
| Someone sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country | Missionary |
| Kingdom that emerged in the 1700's in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade | Asante Kingdom |
| Military leader who won control of the trading city of Kumasi | Osei Tutu |
| Complete control of a product or business by one person or group | Monopoly |
| Yoruba empire that arose in the 1600's in present-day Nigeria and dominated its neighbors for a hundred years | Oyo Empire |
| Seaport city and legislative capital of South Africa; first Dutch colony in Africa | Cape Town |
| Dutch people who settled in Cape Town, Africa, and eventually migrated inland | Boers |
| Portuguese leader who led Portuguese into the Indian Ocean | Afonso de Albuquerque |
| Muslim empire that ruled most of northern India from the mid-1500's to the mid-1700's; also known as the Mogul or Mongol empire | Mughal Empire |
| A state in western India; formerly a coastal city that was made the base of Portugal's Indian trade | Goa |
| A state and coastal city in SW Malaysia, was an early center of the spice trade | Malacca |
| A distant military station or a remote settlement | Outpost |
| A trading company established by the Netherlands in 1602 to protect and expand its trade in Asia | Dutch East India Company |
| Having full, independent power | Sovereign |
| A country in SE Asia made up of several thousand islands | Philippines |
| Indian soldier who served in an army set up by the French or English trading companies | Sepoy |
| Brilliant Jesuit priest in China | Matteo Ricci |
| People originally from Manchuria, north of China, who conquered the Ming dynasty and ruled China as the Qing dynasty from the mid-1600's to the early 1900's | Manchus |
| Dynasty established by the Manchus in the mid 1600's and lasted until the early 1900's; China's last dynasty | Qing Dynasty |
| Kangxi's grandson who had very successful reign in the Qing dynasty | Qianlong |
| Head of a diplomatic mission to China, brought goods to discuss trade | Lord Macartney |
| A coastal city in southern Japan on the island of Kyushu; city in Japan where the second atomic bomb was dropped in August, 1945 | Nagasaki |
| Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500's and 1600's | Conquistador |
| Natural protection, resistance | Immunity |
| City that dominated the Valley of Mexico from about A.D. 200 to A.D. 750 and that influenced the culture of later meso-american peoples | Teotihuacan |
| Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another s defense | Alliance |
| Aztec emperor who thought Spanish leader was a god | Moctezuma |
| One of the earliest conquistadors who was a landowner in Cuba | Hernan Cortes |
| Indian woman who served as a translator andadvisor for Cortes | Malinche |
| Conquered Peru for their riches | Francisco Pizarro |
| War fought between two groups of people in the same nation | Civil War |
| Representative who ruled one of Spain's provinces in the Americas in the king's name; one who governed in India in the name of the British monarch | Viceroy |
| Right the Spanish government granted to its American colonists to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans | Encomienda |
| Worker forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off a debt | Peon |
| A bold priest who condemned the evils of the encomienda system | Bartholome de Las Casas |
| Member of the highest class in Spain's colonies in the Americas | Peninsulare |
| Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendant of Spanish settlers | Creole |
| Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was of Native American and European descent | Mestizo |
| In Spain's colonies in the Americas, person who was of African and European descent | Mulatto |
| Privately owned ship commissioned by a government to attack and capture enemy ships, especially merchant's ships | Privateer |
| French possessions in present-day Canada from the 150's to 1763 | New France |
| Money taken in through taxes | Revenue |
| English Protestants who rejected the Church of England | Pilgrims |
| An agreement among people | Compact |
| War between Britain and France in the Americas that happened from 1754 to 1763; it was part of a global war called the Seven Years' War | French and Indian War |
| Treaty of 1763 that ended the Seven Years' War and resulted in British dominance of the Americas | Treaty of Paris |
| Colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves | Triangular Trade |
| The leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas | Middle Passage |
| Revolt, especially of soldiers or sailors against their officers | Mutiny |
| The global exchange of goods, ideas, plants and animals, and disease that began with Columbus' exploration of the Americas | Colombian Exchange |
| Economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available | Inflation |
| Period in European history when inflation rose rapidly | Price Revolution |
| Economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit | Capitalism |
| Person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit | Entrepreneur |
| Policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver | Mercantilism |
| Tax on imported goods | Tariff |
| Spain; Discovered Florida and built oldest settlement on Puerto Rico | Ponce de Leone |
| England; Tries to find a northwest passage to Asia | Henry Hudson |
| France; Found St. Lawrence River | Jacques Cartier |
| Portugal; Claimed Brazil for Portugal | Pedro Cabral |
| China; Sent on voyages to other countries | Zheng He |
| Spain; He mapped and named America, first to call it a new continent | Amerigo Vespucci |
| Spain; Found the Mississippi | Hernando Desoto |
| Funded voyages for Spain | King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella |
| New Spanish Colonies | New Spain |
| God, Glory, Gold | 3 G's |
| Spanish explorer who heard stories about the Seven Cities of Gold and set out to find them. Explored American Southwest (New Mexico and Arizona) | Fransisco Coronado |
| Group of ships | Caravel |
| Brutal! | Treatment of Natives |
| Spain, Crossed Panama and sees Pacific Ocean | Vasco Nunez de Balboa |
| Portugal; Rounded Cape of Good Hope | Bartolomeu Dias |
| Spain; Portugal; Reached Bahamas 4 times thought it was India | Christopher Columbus |
Created by:
Danceman8
Popular World History sets