The Age Of Discovery

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

A conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.

Question 2

Colony

Answer 2

a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Question 3

Mercanilism

Answer 3

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

Question 4

Balance of trade

Answer 4

the difference in value between a country’s imports and exports.

Question 5

The compass

Answer 5

an instrument containing a magnetized pointer that shows the direction of magnetic north and bearings from it.

Question 6

Joint stock company

Answer 6

a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.

Question 7

Triangular trade

Answer 7

a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.

Question 8

Columbian exchange

Answer 8

The Columbian Exchange refers to a period of cultural and biological exchanges between the New and Old Worlds.

Question 9

Middle passage

Answer 9

the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

Question 10

Treaty of tordesillas

Answer 10

agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.

Question 11

Henry the navigator

Answer 11

was an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.

Question 12

Christopher Columbus

Answer 12

An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492.

Question 13

Vasco de Gamma

Answer 13

Portuguese explorer.

Question 14

Hernan Cortes

Answer 14

Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire

Question 15

Zheng He

Answer 15

formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China’s early Ming dynasty.

Question 16

Ferdinand Magellan

Answer 16

was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian (‘Spanish’) expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522,

Question 17

Spice trade

Answer 17

The spice trade refers to the trade between historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe.

Question 18

Encomienda system

Answer 18

colonial Spanish America, legal system by which the Spanish crown attempted to define the status of the Indian population in its American colonies

Question 19

Dutch East India Company

Answer 19

was originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade.

Question 20

Arawak

Answer 20

a member of a people originally of the Greater Antilles and adjacent South America, now living mainly in Guiana.

Question 21

The Philippines

Answer 21

Of or relating to the Philippines.

Question 22

Fort Jesus Mombasa

Answer 22

It was built between 1593 and 1596, by order of King Philip I of Portugal, to guard the Old Port of Mombasa, Kenya.

Question 23

Kongo kingdoms

Answer 23

Basin of the Congo (Zaire) river, conglomeration of several village alliances

Question 24

Menin tribes

Answer 24

a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader.