exploration and expansion

Question 1

what were they looking for

Answer 1

God
glory
gold

Question 2

Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs.. wanted to convert people to Catholicism

Answer 2

Herman cortez

Question 3

how were these voyages made possible

Answer 3

monarchies were extremely wealthy

new levels of technology

Question 4

took the lead of European exploration

sail east

Answer 4

Portuguese explorers

Question 5

rounded the southern tip of Africa

1488

Answer 5

bartholomeu dias

Question 6

first to make it to India by sea
finds spices and returns to Portugal with them
makes a profit of several thousand percent

Answer 6

Vasco da gama

Question 7

lands in South America in 1500

Answer 7

Pedro Cabral

Question 8

sailed with Pedro Cabral

Answer 8

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 9

knew the world was round but had no idea of its circumference

Answer 9

Spanish explorers

Question 10

sail west
had no idea how big the continent of Asia actually was or that they would stumble upon the Americas when trying to find Asia

Answer 10

Spanish explorers

Question 11

sailed in 1492
convinced that the earths circumference wasn’t as large as others speculated
believed he could find Asia by sailing west instead of east around Africa

Answer 11

Christopher Columbus

Question 12

persuaded queen Isabella of Spain to finance his expedition
reached Central America
explored the coastline of Cuba and the island of Hispaniola
reached America
4 different voyages

Answer 12

Christopher Columbus

Question 13

wanted to sail to Asia to find India
thought that the indies were the eastern most part of India
called the people at this place Indians
never stepped foot on North America

Answer 13

Christopher Columbus

Question 14

persuaded the king of Spain to finance his journey to Asia through the Western Hemisphere
sailed south down the coast of South America trying to find a passage into the pacific from the Atlantic
named the straight Magellan
first person the circumnavigate the globe

Answer 14

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 15

faster and Niger ship designed huh e Portuguese
allowed for longer voyages and lower costs
used triangular sails

Answer 15

carvel ship

Question 16

allowed for sailing against the wind
got the idea from the Arab society
included a large cargo hold to transport a large amount of goods

Answer 16

lateen sails

Question 17

Invented by Chinese

allowed ships to steer and travel faster

Answer 17

sternpost rudder

Question 18

the art and science of mapmaking
Europeans now had fairly accurate maps
used an astrolabe
magnetic compass was also used

Answer 18

improved cartography

Question 19

used to plot their latitude using the sun and stars

Answer 19

astrolabe

Question 20

1494
line of demarcation
unexplored territories to the east were to be controlled by Spain
Portugal now had control over routes to Africa and Spain had control of almost all of Americas

Answer 20

treaty of tordasilles

Question 21

explored northeastern area of modern day US

Answer 21

John Cabot

Question 22

the tendency to look at the world primarily from the perspective of ones own ethnic culture

Answer 22

ethnocentrism

Question 23

research has revealed _________ in every culture of the world

Answer 23

ethnocentrism

Question 24

give and example of ethnocentrism

Answer 24

the belief that one religion is better than someone else’s

Question 25

using something in an unjust or cruel manner

Answer 25

exploitation

Question 26

give an example of exploitation

Answer 26

Europeans and Americans were exploiting Africans by using them for slaves and as a way to trade

Question 27

a type of ethnocentrism which places emphasis on European culture and the western world at the expense of other cultures

Answer 27

eurocentrism

Question 28

the middle leg of a three part voyage

began and ended in Europe

Answer 28

middle passage

Question 29

out of all the the African Americans that were taken from their homes and sold into slavery how many didn’t fully complete the journey

Answer 29

20 million

Question 30

what did the Americas send to Europe

Answer 30

raw material

sugar
tobacco
cotton

Question 31

what did Europe send to Africa

Answer 31

finished goods

textiles
rum
manufactured goods

Question 32

what did Africa send to the Americas

Answer 32

slaves

Question 33

what conclusion did many African slaves come to about the Europeans

Answer 33

that they were cannibalize and ate the slaves

Question 34

an African captured as a boy what later wrote an autobiography

Answer 34

olaudah equiano

Question 35

how much space did the slaves have on the ship

Answer 35

less than 5 feet of headroom

Question 36

how many people were packed in the tiny spaces which caused many diseases

Answer 36

300-400

Question 37

held a slaves mouth open if they refused to eat

Answer 37

speculum orum

Question 38

about how many slaves lost their lives during the middle passage

Answer 38

between 2 and 4 million

Question 39

Spanish and Portuguese born in Europe

held all political power

Answer 39

peninsulares

Question 40

descendants of Europeans born in Latin America. controlled land and business but had no political power

Answer 40

Creoles

Question 41

people who had one European parent and on Native American parent. laborers

Answer 41

mestizos

Question 42

people who had on European parent and one African parent. laborers

Answer 42

mulattoes

Question 43

bottom of pyramid

Answer 43

slaves and various others

Question 44

wanted to convert natives to what

Answer 44

Christians

Question 45

biggest city on the planet before new world

Answer 45

tenochtitlan

Question 46

molaccos

Answer 46

spice island

Question 47

why did Europeans start to travel overseas during the end of the 15th century

Answer 47

they were attracted to Asia
there were profits to be made
ottoman Turks wouldn’t allow travel by land