Explorers
The Portuguese dominated trade by ____
What is forcing merchant ships to use their ports and pay taxes?
This was the most prosperous country in Europe during the 17th century.
What are the Netherlands?
______ is the global diffusion of plants, food, animals humans, and diseases after 1492.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Tenochtitlan was the capital city of these peoples.
Who are the Aztecs?
This Chinese technology helped mariners determine their heading
What is a Magnetic Compass?
Who is Vasco da Gama?
________ established a trade route between the Philippines and Mexico.
Who are the Spanish?
An array of small cords used as a mnemonic aid by administrators for keeping track of responsibilities.
What is a quipu?
A global conflict over empire that pitted France against Britain on three continents.
What is the Seven Years' War?
The technology used to determine latitude.
What is an Astrolabe?
Who is Bartolomeu Dias?
A commercial organization that allowed for high profits while limiting risk.
What is a Joint Stock Company?
This explorer was killed by people in the Philippines after moving to colonize the inhabitants.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
The administrative, religious, and ceremonial center of the Inca Empire.
What is Cuzco?
This was a central tenet of John Calvin's theology/religious beliefs.
What is predestination?
Credited with charting Australia, Hawai'i, and New Zealand for Europeans.
Who is Captain James Cook?
A powerful English joint-stock company founded in 1600
What is the East India Company?
Wampanoag chief Metacom was known as ______ to the British colonists.
Who is King Philip?
The stockholders in the Virginian Company were motivated by this.
What is financial gain?
This ended the reconquista.
What was the Muslim kingdom of Granada falling to Catholic forces?
Bartolome de Las Casas spoke out against this.
What is the violence shown to Native peoples?
The reason that Nathaniel Bacon was angry with the Governor of Virginia.
What is Berkeley refused to war against Natives on behalf of settlers?
What is using hostages as collateral?
This system gave 50 acres of land to anyone who paid to transport themselves to the colony.
What is Incan?