Europe Looks Out
European merchants bought goods from traders in what region?
The Middle East (Arab traders).
Who set up a school for navigation at Sagres?
Prince Henry (Henry the Navigator).
An economic system where money is invested in businesses to make profit.
capitalism
The defeat of this fleet allowed England to begin colonizing North America.
Spanish Armada
The rule of law means laws should apply to whom?
everyone equally
These three Italian cities became wealthy trading centers.
Pisa, Venice, and Genoa.
Bartolomeu Dias sailed to the southern tip of what continent?
Africa
Banks in the 1600s provided this service beyond holding deposits and loans.
issuing banknotes and exchanging currencies
In 1517, this man began the Protestant Reformation.
Martin Luther
This thinker promoted absolutism in his book Leviathan.
Thomas Hobbes
The Renaissance means “rebirth” of interest in what cultures?
Ancient Greece and Rome.
Vasco da Gama was the first European to reach this city in India.
Calicut
This type of company allowed investors to share profits and risks.
joint-stock company
England sent this explorer to look for a northern route to Asia in 1497.
John Cabot
This philosopher believed in natural rights and inspired the American colonists.
John Locke
Two European countries that searched for sea routes to Asia.
Portugal and Spain.
Spanish explorers were called what?
Conquistadors
The global exchange of people, goods, ideas, and diseases.
Columbian Exchange
The French had better relations with Native Americans because they traded, respected, and often lived among them. Name one reason.
fur trading / living among Natives / respecting their culture
Baron de Montesquieu believed in this principle to limit government power.
separation of powers
What invention spread ideas and books like Marco Polo’s Travels?
The printing press.
The first Spanish settlement in what is now the U.S. was built at?
St. Augustine, Florida.
When Native Americans were enslaved in mines and fields, they were replaced by this group.
Africans
The Dutch set up New Netherland on this island at the mouth of the Hudson.
Manhattan Island
The English Bill of Rights signed by William and Mary later inspired this group.
American colonists