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World History Ch. 6
Exploration of America
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a Florentine, who went along on several voyages and wrote letters describing the lands he saw. These letters led to the use of the name America (after Amerigo) for the new lands. | Amerigo Vespucci |
| a large agricultural estate | Plantation |
| a Spanish conqueror of the Americas | Conquistadors |
| a pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa and Asia, and the American continents; typically, manufactured goods from Europe were sent to Africa, where they were exchanged for slaves, who were sent to the Americas, where they were exchanged for raw m | Triangular Trade |
| a system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas to regulate Native American labor. | Encomienda |
| the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route. | Middle Passage |
| a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control. | Colony |
| a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver. | Mercantilism |
| the greatest king of the Congo became a Christian and sought friendly trade with Portugal. Found they couldn’t be trusted as they made raids for African slaves and tried to kill him because they thought he was hiding gold. | King Alfonso |
| the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time. | Balance of Trade |
| an administrative organization that relies on non-elective officials and regular procedures. | Bureaucracy |
| Italy Asia | Marco Polo |
| Spain Mexico | Hernan Cortes |
| Portugal Cape of Good Hope | Bartholomeu Dias |
| England New England Coast | Vasco da Gama |
| Spain Bahamas, Cuba, Hispaniola | Christopher Columbus |
| Portugal India | John Cabot |
| Spain Peru | Francisco Pizarro |
| Spain Sailed around World | Ferdinand Magellan |
| mainly economic. Merchants, adventurers, and state officials had hopes of expanding trade, especially for the spices of the East. people wanted to change all the Native Americans into Christians. spirit of adventure and curiosity of the new world. | What were the motives for European exploration? |
| Portugal was the first successful European explorer because they had “guns and seamanship.”(Textbook p. 192) With Prince Henry the Navigator they began exploring the West African coast and found gold. | Who were the first successful European explorers? |
| Spain and Portugal were fighting because of the lands they wanted to explore were in the same area. said that Portugal could explore every east ofline and Spain to the west. This line ran north to south through Atlanticand the easternmost South American | What is the Treaty of Toredesilla |
| Queen Isabella declared Native Americans to be her subjects. She granted Spanish encomienda, right to use Native Americans as laborers. The Spanish were supposed to protect Native Americans, but the settlers were far from Spain and ignored their rulers. | What was the Spanish system of colonial administration? |
| 24. During the 1600s, the French colonized parts of what is now Canada and Louisiana. English settlers, meanwhile, founded Virginia and the Massachusetts Bay Colony. The Dutch colony of New Netherland stretched from the mouth of the Hudson River. | What did the Dutch, French and English colonize? |
| connected Europe, Africa and Asia, and the Americas. European ships carried guns and cloth, to Africa,traded for slaves. bought slaves from African merchants at slave markets led to the depopulation deprived communities of their youngest and strongest | What is triangular trade? |
| the kingdom consisted of a number of previously independent small states linked together by family ties and answered to the king. | What is a political system? |
| The Dutch had more money than the Portuguese and the shift of power began in the early 1600s when the Dutch seized a Portuguese fort in the Moluccas and then pushed the Portuguese out of the spice trade. | When did the shift of power from Portugese to Duthc happen? and why? |
| evolved into four styles of monarchy. Buddhist kings, Javanese kings, Islamic sultans, and Vietnamese emperors all adapted foreign models of government to local circumstances. | What were the political systems in southeast asia? |
| The extensive exchange of plants and animals between the Old and New Worlds transformed economic activity in both worlds. | What was the Columbian Exchange? |
| affected not only the conquered but also the conquerors. Colonists established plantations and ranches to raise sugar, cotton, vanilla, livestock, and other products introduced to the Americas for export to Europe. | How did Spanish conquests affect the Americas? |
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