The High Seas
What is a Caravel?
Portugal seized this state in India in 1510.
What is Goa?
The influx of these metals caused significant inflation in the 1500s and 1600s.
What are Gold and Silver?
This leader of the Catholic Church oversaw the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Who is the Pope?
This was the Spanish Queen who, with her Husband Ferdinand II, provided the funding for Columbus' voyages.
Who is Isabella?
The part of the Triangular Trade that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This group of islands in Asia were colonized by Spain.
What are the Philippines?
In this process raw materials are purchased by entrepreneurs and transformed into marketable goods in workers' homes.
What is Cottage Industry? (putting-out-system)
Many European countries sent these people to convert others.
What are missionaries?
This Portuguese ruler funded Navigational Schools which charted routes along the coast of Africa.
Who is Prince Henry?
(Henry the Navigator)
This astronomical instrument is used to calculate the position of celestial bodies and to observe the night sky.
What is an astrolabe?
The original European settlers of Canada before it was taken by Britain following the Seven Years War.
What is France?
Some countries sought to reduce imports through the use of these taxes on them.
What are tariffs?
In New Spain, this system forced Native Americans to work 'in exchange' for conversion.
What is Encomienda?
This Aztec ruler was overthrown by Hernán Cortés.
Who is Moctezuma?
Ferdinand Magellan wanted to sail around the world. Though he died on the way, his crew would be the first to do this to the world.
What is circumnavigate?
This Dutch group settled South Africa in the 1600s.
Who are Boers?
In medieval Europe, these groups controlled the production of many goods.
What are guilds?
Attempts to introduce Christianity were largely unsuccessful in this country ruled by a Shogun.
What is Japan?
This officials in New Spain were appointed by the king to rule.
What are Viceroys?
This sailor was the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa. Vasco would continue his route to later reach India.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
A port-city on the coast of North Africa, conquered by Portugal.
What is Ceuta?
This was one of the first joint-stock-companies, founded in the Netherlands in 1602.
What is the Dutch East India Company?
This Spanish priest (a Dominican Friar) criticized the poor treatment of Native Americans in his A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
This Kongo ruler sought to restrict the slave trade in Africa.
Who is Mvemba a Nzinga (Afonso I)?