European Expansion
This European nation set up a colony at the Cape of Good Hope as a supply station for ships to Asia.
What is the Dutch Republic?
The majority of African slaves brought to the Americas worked on these kinds of plantations.
What are sugar plantations?
This Asian dynasty, from Manchuria, replaced the Ming in the 1600s.
What is the Qing dynasty?
This European nation took over the spice trade from Portugal in the 17th century.
What is the Dutch Republic?
This empire was described as “an old, crazy, first-rate man of war” destined to crash due to weak leadership.
What is the Spanish Empire?
This prince was called “the Navigator” because of his support for maritime exploration.
Who is Prince Henry of Portugal?
Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the number of Africans shipped to the New World is estimated at this many millions.
What is about ten million?
This European nation had the first direct contact with China since Marco Polo.
What is Portugal?
In India, Britain’s main European rival was this country.
What is France?
The first European nation to establish formal diplomatic relations with China.
What is Russia?
This European explorer was the first to sail around the Cape of Good Hope.
Who is Bartholomeu Dias?
The African slave trade fueled more of this on the African continent.
What is warfare and violence?
This dynasty’s rulers Kangxi and Qianlong expanded China’s power in the 17th–18th centuries.
What is the Qing dynasty?
The imprisonment of British subjects in Bengal was known by this infamous name.
What is the Black Hole of Calcutta?
This resource-rich area made Spain extremely wealthy in the 1500s, but inflation weakened them.
What is silver from the Americas?
This treaty in 1494 divided the New World between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This Christian group, also known as Quakers, began the first strong opposition to the slave trade in the 18th century.
Who are the Society of Friends?
This Japanese leader expelled Christian missionaries and closed Japan to almost all Europeans.
Who is Tokugawa Ieyasu?
Sir Robert Clive was instrumental in expanding this nation’s power in India.
What is Britain?
Despite being small and resource-poor, the Dutch Republic succeeded overseas mainly because of this strength.
What are finance and trade networks (backed by the VOC)?