Chapter 4 Flashcards
Encounter with the West
Tierra Incognita
Unknown lands
To the West, for quite a long time, the Philippines and the rest of the
world was Tierra Incognita, T or F
T
West was led by what countries?
Portugal and Spain
rival each other for the
possession of rich colonies in America, Asia and Africa.
Spain and Portugal
drew up treaties defining territorial rights to Spain
Spanish Pope
used by Spanish conquistadores
and missionaries in establishing colonies in the Americas
without much resistance.
sword and cross
another attempt to
colonize the islands succeeded under who?
Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
Spain’s famed explorer
Ferdinand Magellan,
established the first
European settlement in the archipelago
Legazpi
Where lezagpi founded a permanent Spanish colony in the kingdom
of Maynila.
Luzon
Oriental spices, silk, fruits, attar of roses, Persian rugs, perfumes and
precious stones were easily sold in Europeans markets at big profits. T or F
T
who who went to the Holy Land to reclaim the Orient from the
Muslims?
Christian
crusaders of Europe,
citizens of Venice
Venetians
became a city of Italy,
Venice
passed through Central Asia by land, then to
the cities of Samarkand and Bokhara, then around the Caspian Sea
and the Black Sea, and finally to Constantinople in the Mediterranean.
Northern Route
started from Malacca in the Malay Peninsula, then to the Indian Ocean and the Indian ports, then to
the Persian Gulf to Baghdad and Constantinople, and finally to Cairo in
the Mediterranean.
Central Route
At the time the Arabs were developing their trade with Asia, there
existed three trade routes connecting Europe to Asia. T or F
F. Europeans were developing
started from Malacca, then to the Indian Ocean and to the ports of
India, then to the Red Sea, and finally to Cairo in the Mediterranean.
Southern Route
They captured the city of
Constantinople through which two routes passed.
Turks
closed the
Northern and Central Routes.
Turks
In his desire to make
Portugal a sea power, he sent an expedition to the Azores, near the
coast of Africa in 1421.
Prince Henry
allowed the ____ to
use the Southern Route on condition that they pay a certain sum as
fee.
Venetians
came to monopolize the Southern Route
Venetians
Instruments for navigation developed by Prince Henry
astrolabe,
the windrose
compass,
and the caravel, which was a kind of ship.