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WC Ch 15
The First Global Age
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Henry the Navigator | Prince Henry, hoped to expand christianity and find source of arican gold. Constructed team in Sagres, Portugal. Died in 1460, continued quest to "Cape of Good Hope" |
| Vasco Da Gama | Led 4 ships around Cape of Good Hope in 1497, later reached Calicut. Sold profit of prices 3,000%. Lost many sailors due to sickness. Forced treaty on CAlicut leader, set up major trade empire for portugal. |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator from port of Genoa. Wanted to reach Indies by sailing west. Portugal turned him down, sailed for spain. Ran into carribean thinking it was the indies. |
| Two great errors of Columbus: | Underestimated size of earth, no idea that two continents laid in his path. |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | Spanish explorer. Hacked passage through rain forrests on Panama. Discovered South Sea. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portugese Noble, set out from Spain with five ships. Put down mutinies. Reached coast of S.America, trying to find path to pacific. It enter southern tip of SA, extreme weather, Reached philiipeans, was killed, ships 1st circumnavigation. awesome! |
| cartographer | mapmaker |
| astroblade | intrument used to determine latitude. developed by ancieant greeks, perfected by muslims. |
| caravel | ship that combined Euprope square sails and arab triangle sails. |
| scurvy | sickness due to lack of vitamin C. |
| cirvumnavigate | to circle globe(magellan's crew first) |
| Pagan | arose in Irrawaddy, major buddhist center. Flourished for 200 years, fell in 1287 due to mongols. Through off rule and looked back at pagan era with pride. |
| matrilinneal | descent through mother |
| stupa | dome-shaped shrine. |
| King Anawrata | set up pagan empire. Credited for bringing buddhism to the burmans. Filled capital city with stupas. |
| Khmer | indian influenced, peaked between 800-1350. In present day thailand, cambodia, and malaysia. Adapted the arts. Pious Hindus. |
| King Suryavarman | built the great temple complex at Angkor Wart. Extremely impressive. Portrays gods and glorifies the king. Shows images of Buddha, Shiva, and Vishnu. |
| padi feild (ex. rice padi) | |
| Trung Sisters | Trac and Nhi led and uprising briefly drove chinese out of vietnam, remebered as heroes, strived for simpler vietnamese government. |
| Alfonso de Albuqeurque | conquested, showed evil side of portugese. crushed arab fleets. set up strong trading posts. They did not have enough resources to conquer land though. |
| outpost | distant area under control. |
| sepoy | indian troops |
| Robert Clive | agent of British East India Company/ Drove french from trading posts. Forced Mughal emperor to recognize right to collect taxes. Company became ruler of Bengal. Incluenced other parts of India. |
| Matteo Ricci | jesuit, made positive impression on Ming China. Failed at spreading Christianisty, but china was excited to learn the arts or the renaissance. Learned Chinese and adopted the dress. |
| Manchus | seized beijing. Set up Qinh dynasty. Barred intermarriage between chinese and Manchus. Adopted confuscian system of goverment. |
| Kangxi | ruled in Qing from 1661-1722. Extended Chinese power to central Asia. |
| Qianlong | ranged 1736-1792. Expanded bordes to make the largest empire in the nation's history. Retired after 60 years, did not want to ruler greater than his Grandfather (Kangxi) |
| Hermit Kingdom | name given to Korea. Would kill sailors who washed up on shore. |
| Francis Xavier | Jesuit Spanish Priest, contributed to the spread of christianity in Japan. |
| Srivijaya | empire in Indonesia that flourished from 600-1200. Controlled the Strait of Malaca. Worshiped spirit forms of nature. |
| Astrolabe | A device used to measure the angel of the sun and the stars above the horizon. |
| A ship with square and triangular sails. | Caravel |
| Cartographer | A mapmaker |
| A term for "rule" in India | Raj |
| Sepoy | An Indian soldier. |
| Why did European rulers encourage ocean exploration? | To find new trade routes. |
| Who were successful merchants and rulers in Southeast Asia? | Women |
| Who did the Portuguese lose control of trade to in the 1600s? | Dutch |
| What was the Ming and Qing dynasties policy on foreign trade? | They restricted foreign trade. |
| What is Souteast Asia region composed of? | A mainland and scattered islands. |
| Who took control of the spice trade from the Portugese? | Dutch |
| How is Kora similar to China? | Discouraged contacts with outsiders. |
| Who was the Khmer Empire influenced by? | India |
| During the 15th century, which two European countires began sea voyages of exploration? | Portugal and Spain |
| What were Magellan and his crew seeking on their voyage? | A sea route through America to the Indies. |
| What was one factor that caused Muslims to resent the Portuguese? | Religious intolerance, the Portuguese tried to convert them. |
| Why were the Chinese uninterested in trading with Europeans? | European goods were inferior to Chinese goods. |
| Leif Eriksson | Norwegian explorer , son of Erik the Red, was the first European explorer to reach the america's |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | King of Portugal who established a school of navigation and financed trips of exploration |
| Bartolomeu Dias | The first European to travel around the tip of Africa. |
| Vasco De Gama | One of the most successful Portuguese explorers of his time, he traveled with a fleet of four ships from Lisbon around the tip of Africa. |
| Christopher Columbus | 1451-1506 Italian explorer, he thought he could reach Asia by sailing westward across the Atlantic Ocean. He gained the support of Spain's monarchs and commanded a small fleet that reached the so called New World, making other people want to explore too. |
| Ferinand Magellan | Portuguese captain of a Spanish fleet that sought a western route to Asia other than the Southern Ocean. He found a passage through South America, now called the Strait of Magellan. |
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