Vocabulary I
Students at Prince Henry's navigation school learned how to build light sailboats known as what?
caravel
a Spanish explorer who conquered lands in the Americas.
conquistador
Established a navigation school on the Atlantic coast
Prince Henry the Navigator
List the 3 motivations of the Age of Exploration
Gold, God, and Glory
Which type of company was the Dutch East India Trading Company?
joint-stock company
What did the encomienda allow?
enforced labor of Native Americans
a representative of the king in the Spanish Americas.
viceroy
He used caravels during his historic voyage to the Americas. Was looking for the islands south of China
Christopher Columbus
The name of the treaty between Spain and Portugal
Treaty of Tordesillas
Where were the headquarters of the East India Trading Company located?
Batavia on the island of Java
Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to do this
circumnavigate the world
a legal system that allowed each settler in the Spanish Americas to exact tribute, mainly in labor, from a certain number of Native Americans.
encomienda
1st explorer to circumnavigate the world
Ferdinand Magellan
Name the two tools sailors used to navigate.
astrolabe and magnetic compass
What is the name of the islands they seized from Portugal in 1641?
Spice Islands
A business enterprise funded by the sale of shares to multiple investors
joint-stock company
a free-market economic system in which businesses are privately owned and exist for the purpose of making profits
capitalism
Launched an invasion of modern-day Mexico. Conquered the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
List 3 items that were exchanged during the Columbian Exchange
plants, animals, people, ideas, disease
Which English explorer searched for the Northwest Passage and explored a river that was named after him?
Henry Hudson
a system in which government protects and encourages trade, based on the theory that such businesses create wealth.
mercantilism
A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry
mestizos
Conquistador that stole from the Incas, murdered their king, and conquered the Incas.
Francisco Pizarro
Portugal captured which sea port city that enabled them to control the Spice Islands.
Goa
Which Netherlands city became a major center of global trade?
Amsterdam