Chapter 14 (Exploration)

Question 1

Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the atlantic, reestablishing contact between the peoples of Americas and the Old world and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization
-discovered hispaniola (though he’d discovered India)

Answer 1

Christopher Columbus

Question 2

Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world

Answer 2

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 3

Set the line of demarcation which was a boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas

Answer 3

Treaty of Tordesillas

Question 4

the inquisition that guarded the orthodoxy of Catholicism in Spain (especially from the 15th to the 17th centuries)

Answer 4

Spanish inquisition

Question 5

Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa

Answer 5

Henry the Navigator

Question 6

Policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver by acquiring colonies for a mother country

Answer 6

Mercantilism

Question 7

Portuguese explorer, discovered all water route to India around Africa

Answer 7

Vasco de Gama

Question 8

Increases in prices in 16th century inflation- increased demand for goods influx of gold and silver

Answer 8

Price revolution

Question 9

the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following columbus’s voyages

Answer 9

Columbian exchange

Question 10

a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the atlantic ocean to north america and the west indies

Answer 10

middle passage

Question 11

a three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent raw materials to Europe, and Europe sent guns and rum to Africa

Answer 11

the triangular trade

Question 12

A company made up of a grouo of shareholders. Each shareholder contributed some money to the company and receives some share of the company’s profits and debts

Answer 12

Joint stock company

Question 13

series of laws passed by the english parliament restricting colonial trade
-purpose was to encourage british shipping and allow Great britain to retain the monopoly of british colonial trade for the benefit of british merchants

Answer 13

Navigation acts

Question 14

operated under quasi-government control and was funded by both public and private investment

Answer 14

Dutch east India company

Question 15

formed to pursue trade with the East Indies, but which ended up trading mainly with the Indian subcontinent and Qing China.

Answer 15

british east india company