Vocab
What is the balance of trade?
Difference in value between imports and exports over time
What was the name of the queen that Columbus persuaded into financing the expedition?
Queen Isabella
What did Portugal find along Africa's west coast?
Gold and Ivory
What two countries are part of the Line of Demacration?
Portugal and Spain
Spanish sought to reach the spice trade by sailing westward across the __________.
Atlantic Ocean
What is the triangular trade?
The pattern of trade connecting Europe, Africa, and Americas
Columbus believed he could reach Asia by sailing ____ instead of East around Africa
West
What year did Portugal begin to explore Africa?
1420
According to the _________ the line would extend from North to South through the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern most part of South America.
Treaty of Tordesilles
Portuguese sailed eastward through what ocean to reach the spice trade?
Indian Ocean
What is the mercantilism?
Economic theory of the seventeenth century
Which ship did Columbus ride? (It was the largest and didn't make it back)
Santa Maria
De Gama went all the way to _____ , returning with spices he sold.
India
What is the Line of Demacration?
An imaginary lines that divides their spheres of influence
What saying represents how religion posed a reason for exploration?
God, Glory & Gold
What does egregious mean?
Very large amount
What were the 3 ships that Christopher Columbus sent out?
Santa Maria, Pinta, Nina
When Portugal weeded out of the composition they took control of what trade?
Spice Trade
Unexplored territories east of the line would be controlled by what country?
Portugal
When was the Treaty of Tordesilles signed?
1494
What is the Ashanti?
Gold Coast state
What year did Columbus reach Americas?
1492
What was the Southern Tip called?
Cape of Good Hope
Unexplored territories west of the line would be controlled by what country?
Spain
In Columbus four voyages he reached all the major islands of the Caribbean and Honduras, which he called the what?
Indies