Vocab
large land estates run by an owner, worked by slaves
Plantations
Christopher Columbus
Why did Europeans explore the Seas?
Fidn cheaper trade routes for spices, goods, etc
distant areas under control by faraway power
outposts
wrote about voyage to Brazil, America named after him
Amerigo Vespucci
signed by Spain and Portugal that dived the world into half
Treaty of Tordesillas
sail around the world
circumnavigate
had sovereign powers and came to dominate the Indian and East Indies areas
Dutch East India Company
name of line the divided Earth between Spain and Portugal
Line of Demarcation
map makers
cartographers
reached the southern tip of South America, named the Pacific Ocean
Ferdinand Magellan
near Ghana, created monopolies on gold and slave trade
Asante Kingdom
Dutch farmers that settled Cape Town South Africa
Boers
reached India by sailing around the tip of Africa
Vasco de Gama
conquered China and established the Qing dynasty
Manchurians