10.1 - Western Outreach
The name given to the indigenous peoples when Christopher Columbus reached the Americas
Who were the Indians?
Natives had never been exposed / No natural immunity
What was China and Japan's overall view and opinion of trade with Europe?
They preferred to stay isolated and avoid outside goods.
The name for the war between France and Britain that was fought in both the Eastern and Western hemispheres
Genoese captain who sailed to Americas and mistakenly named the natives, "Indians"
Who was Christopher Columbus?
This joint stock company had government monopoly over trade in India
What is the British East India Company?
What was one of the diseases in the Columbian Exchange?
Smallpox, Measles
What is Europe?
This adventurer led the conquest of the Inca empire and even strangled its emperor.
Who was Francisco Pizarro
People with mixed European and Indian ancestry in Americas
Who are mestizos?
Name one motive of Portuguese rulers to organize expeditions
Excitement of Discovery
Harm they can cause to Muslim world
Economic Gain/Wealth
Name 1 environmental impact of the Columbian Exchange
Destruction of Local Vegetation
Increased Soil Erosion
Deforestation
Various Species' Population Decline
The idea that governments should limit foreign imports in order to improve tax revenue
In return for slaves, name one of the resources Europeans traded to the Africans.
Indian cotton
European guns
other decorative items
Name for the Southern tip of Africa that Portuguese traveled around in search of direct route to India.
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Europeans borrowed this group's knowledge of explosives and adapted it into gunnery
Who are the Chinese?
What was an effect of new crops in China during the seventeenth century?
To protect their own cotton industry, what did Britain do?
Britain passed tariffs against the import of cotton cloth from India
This adventurer established the first Spanish colony in present-day Panama
Who was Vasco de Balboa?
Name for Dutch settlers in Cape Colony
Who were the Boers?
Portuguese captain who initiated first circumnavigation of the globe
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
This crop from the Andes region was sold in the streets of Paris by the 1680s.
Potatoes (French Fries)
What was another way Europeans profited from slave trade with Africa
Control of commercial and shipping services
This incident was used by the English to rally their forces and seize additional Indian and French territory.
The attack and capture of the British base at Calcutta.
It was the naval battle where the Spanish emerged victorious over the Ottoman empire
What was the battle of Lepanto?