Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
People to Know
Test Questions
2.2
100

Students at Prince Henry's navigation school learned how to build light sailboats known as what?

caravel

100

a Spanish explorer who conquered lands in the Americas.

conquistador

100

Established a navigation school on the Atlantic coast

Prince Henry the Navigator

100

List the 3 motivations of the Age of Exploration

Gold, God, and Glory

100

Which type of company was the Dutch East India Trading Company?

joint-stock company

200

What did the encomienda allow?

enforced labor of Native Americans

200

a representative of the king in the Spanish Americas.

viceroy

200

He used caravels during his historic voyage to the Americas.  Was looking for the islands south of China

Christopher Columbus

200

The name of the treaty between Spain and Portugal

Treaty of Tordesillas

200

Where were the headquarters of the East India Trading Company located?

Batavia on the island of Java

300

Ferdinand Magellan was the first explorer to do this

circumnavigate the world

300

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

300

1st explorer to circumnavigate the world

Ferdinand Magellan

300

Name the two tools sailors used to navigate.

astrolabe and magnetic compass

300

What is the name of the islands they seized from Portugal in 1641?

Spice Islands

400

A business enterprise funded by the sale of shares to multiple investors

joint-stock company

400

a free-market economic system in which businesses are privately owned and exist for the purpose of making profits

capitalism

400

Launched an invasion of modern-day Mexico.  Conquered the Aztecs

Hernan Cortes

400

List 3 items that were exchanged during the Columbian Exchange

plants, animals, people, ideas, disease

400

Which English explorer searched for the Northwest Passage and explored a river that was named after him?

Henry Hudson

500

a system in which government protects and encourages trade, based on the theory that such businesses create wealth.

mercantilism

500

A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry

mestizos

500

Conquistador that stole from the Incas, murdered their king, and conquered the Incas.

Francisco Pizarro

500

Portugal captured which sea port city that enabled them to control the Spice Islands.

Goa

500

Which Netherlands city became a major center of global trade?

Amsterdam