European Explorers
This explorer sailed west from Europe on behalf of Spain looking for the Indies, instead landing in Hispaniola.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The year Bartholomeu Dias sailed around the bottom of Africa, later known as the Cape of Good Hope.
What is 1488?
The strategically important port city that acted as a gateway from Southeast Asia and the Spice Islands to global oceanic trade routes.
What is Malacca?
Merchants from the Netherlands formed this organization in 1602.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This Kongo leader wrote a letter to King John in Portugal asking him to outlaw slavery.
Who is King Affonso I?
This Spaniard's crew circumnavigated the globe, while he died in battle in what is now the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The year the Treaty of Tordesillas was signed.
What is 1494?
The southernmost tip of South America, first navigated by Magellan.
What is Cape Horn?
Lord Macartney of Britain offended this Qing Emperor during his diplomatic mission to China in 1793, resulting in the Chinese policy of isolation.
Who is Emperor Qianlong?
This leader of the Asante kingdom claimed divine right to unite his kingdom and oversaw an efficient, merit-based bureaucracy.
Who is Osei Tutu?
Sailing from Portugal, this captain followed his fellow countryman's route around the Cape of Good Hope and successfully reached India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
The year the Portuguese took control of Malacca, led by de Albuquerque.
What is 1511?
The island where Columbus first landed in the New World, the site of present day Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
What is Hispaniola?
The Japanese invaded this peninsular nation in 1592 and 1597, followed by an invasion of Manchus in 1636.
What is Korea?
The term for Dutch farmers who settled in what is now South Africa.
Who are Boers?
This captain attacked and claimed Goa and Malacca for the Portuguese.
Who is Afonso de Albuquerque?
The year the Dutch wrest control of Malacca from the Portuguese.
What is 1641?
The location where China allowed a limited trade window for Europeans.
What is Macao?
This Italian Jesuit priest translated European books on science and philosophy into Chinese.
Who is Matteo Ricci?
The Islamic empire of South Asia, controlling much of present-day India prior to the colonialization by European nations.
What is the Mughal Empire?
This Italian captain wrote about his expedition along the shores of present-day Brazil, and was immortalized for his efforts.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The year the Manchus occupy Beijing and establish the Qing Dynasty.
What is 1644?
The seat of power for the Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan, a city now known as Tokyo.
What is Edo?
This Japanese city was the location where two Dutch ships were allowed to participate in trade with Japan once per year, and remained an important industrial center over the next few hundred years.
What is Nagasaki?
Emperor Qianlong's grandfather, he ruled for 60 years and expanded the reach and influence of the Qing Dynasty empire.
Who is Emperor Kangxi?