Explorers
Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.
What is Christopher Columbus
What is the name for map makers
Cartographers
Large estates run by an owner or an owners overseer
Plantations
Name for places where merchants traded under the Portuguese empire
outposts
What empire was decaying and the Manchus took over?
Ming dynasty
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1519)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
Where were Europeans getting their spices from?
Moluccas islands
The exclusive control of a business or industry
Monopoly
The name for Indian troops
The trading post that Ming rulers let the Portuguese trade at
Macao near Canton
The royal who sponsored exploration in Portugal.
Prince Henry
What is the term for sail around the world?
circumnavigate
The ruler of Kongo who fought against the slave trade
Affonso I
The company founded by wealthy Dutch merchants to fund expeditions
Dutch East India Company
The Jesuit priest who made an impression on the Chinese
Matteo Ricci
Who was the explorer who traveled around the Cape of Good Hope and made Portuguese an official world power?
Vasco de Gama
How did the Pope divide the non-European world into two zones?
Line of demarcation
The kingdom that became powerful in Africa and traded gold and slaves with Europeans
Asante kingdom
Mughal Empire
Where did the Japanese allow trade to be conducted?
Nagasaki harbor
The head of British diplomatic missions who arrived in China in 1793
Why did Prince Henry take interest in Africa?
He wanted to convert them to Christianity
Where was the first Dutch settlement in Africa and what were the European farmers who lived there called?
Cape Town and Boers
What was the first country in Asia that Spain took over?
The Philippines
Why did Korea choose to be isolated for many years?
They were devastated by previous invasions by Japanese and Chinese