Tech & Motivation
The most important navigation tool that was first developed in China
What is the magnetic compass?
This Portuguese-sponsored explorer was the first to reach India by sea after rounding the Cape of Good Hope
Who was Vasco da Gama?
Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes defeated this empire in Mexico in the early 1500s
What was the Aztec Empire?
These three letters abbreviate the name of the most profitable Dutch joint-stock company of the 1600s
What are V.O.C.?
Word starts with "I" --- describes what some Asian nations, like Japan and China, started to do in response to European arrival in their country
What is isolation?
The most important navigation tool that was first developed in Dar al-Islam
What is the astrolabe?
This Portuguese royal family member sponsored maritime schools and is credited with initiating Europe's "Age of Discovery"
Who was Prince Henry the Navigator?
Spain expanded their empire by conquering this empire in Peru in the late 1500s
What was the Inca Empire?
The Dutch developed a monopoly over this item found in their Southeast Asian colonies
What were spices?
The exchange of plants, animals, and disease from Old World to New World, and vice versa
What was the Columbian Exchange?
The development of strong land empires linked to this religion was a major factor in European motivations to reach the Indian Ocean by sea
What was Islam?
Term to describe the Portuguese maritime empire, based on their building of forts along the African and Asian coastlines
What was a "trading post empire"?
Name for a grant of labor, to be performed by the indigenous population, from the Spanish crown to Spanish settlers in the Americas
What was the encomienda?
Name of the ship developed by the Dutch and commonly used by the Dutch East India Company
What was the fluyt?
Queen Nanny and the maroons were examples of this oppressed group challenging growing state power
Who were slaves?
In response to the Protestant Reformation, members of the Jesuits spread this religion to Asia and the Americas
What is Catholicism?
What were cash crops?
Spain hoped to acquire large amount of this when implementing the Spanish version of the mit'a system in South America
What was silver?
The eastern province of this modern North American country became part of "New France" and still maintains French characteristics
What is Canada?
The development of this new trade network in the 1500s was the first to make trade truly global
What was Trans-Atlantic (or Triangular) Trade?
The search for gold and other material wealth in the form of precious metals was largely due to the belief in this economic theory of the 16th & 17th centuries
What was mercantilism?
The Portuguese changed things in Indian Ocean trade, by relying on this, rather than relying on ethnic and/or religious ties
What was military force?
The influx of mass amounts of silver from Spain's colonies in to the global economy led to this term, given by historians, for a period of rising inflation worldwide
What was the Price Revolution?
Name of the most significant British joint-stock company of the 1600s
What was the British East India Company?
The name historians have given to the change in the 1600s when global trade increased and became based on silver
What was the Commercial Revolution?