Maritime Technology & Navigation
Economic & Labor Systems
Cultural Exchange and Religion
Environmental & Demographic Impacts
State Rivalries & Imperial Governance
100
What kind of ship did Portugal invent that was both fast and had canons?
Caravel
100
What economic system did Europe eventually indulge in?
Mercantilism
100
What religion did Portugal spread through trade?
Catholicism
100
What took place due to the construction of caravels?
Mass deforestation
100
Portugal went from an early Maritime exploration imperial governance to what?
A "point-based" empire
200
How did Portugal manage to to get a better understanding of Atlantic and Indian wind patterns?
Charting wind patterns/currents
200
What did the states rely on to expand influence and the economy?
Merchants
200
What kind of textiles from the Kingdom of Congo were brought into Europe as luxury goods?
Raffia textiles
200
Continuous what lead to soil exhaustion in some areas?
Cash crop farming
200
What were one of the Asian empires to resist against the intrusion of western powers in the Indian Ocean?
Tokugawa, Japan
300
How did Portugal determine their latitude at sea?
The mariner's astrolabe
300
What did established colonies create to expand export?
Closed markets
300
What administrative European practices did Portugal introduce across their colonies?
Tax systems, schools, and hospitals
300
Even though Europeans had settled in both North and South America by 1700, their population was only about 13 million. Their population went down about how much?
67 million
300
What top 3 colonies rose up as the Portugal expansion started reaching its peak?
France, England, and Dutch
400
What did Portugal use to defend trade routes?
Caravel canons
400
What lead to less exploration?
Joint-stock companies
400
How did Portugal spread Catholicism?
Forced conversion and expulsion
400
European population was nerfed by what disease?
The Black Death
400
Who aggressively seized Portuguese possessions in South East Asia and parts of Brazil?
The Dutch
500
Who helped Portugal expand the knowledge of astronomy, cartography, and winds?
Prince Henry the Navigator
(he was basically their technology)
500
What did Europeans invent in order to avoid overpriced, low quality spices?
New sea routes
500
Due to establishing ties with Portugal, what religion did the King of Congo convert to?
Christianity
500
Deforestation wasn't only caused by the construction of caravels, but also...?
The creation of cow pastures
500
In result of the dispatching of most valuable goods back into Europe, what arose?
An empire stretching from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.