European Explorers
The explorer to discover a route to India around Africa.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
The United States buying Alaska from Russia was an act of this.
What is imperialism?
The exchange of plants and animals between the New World and the Old World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
When Spanish landowners force Native Americans to pay taxes and provide labor, granted by the Spain.
What is the encomienda?
Replaced the astrolabe and measures latitude and longitude.
What is a sextant?
A Spanish conqueror of the Americas.
Who are conquistadors?
The three key motives for European Expansion.
What are Gold, Glory, and God?
The Dutch were successful in Asian trade because of...
What is slavery?
These two practices of resource extraction, brought influxes of money into Spain and Portugal from Latin America.
What are farming and mining?
Portuguese ship, with two types of sails, that made traveling long distances easier.
What is a caravel?
The first recorded man to visit China and serve in the Kublai Khans court.
Who is Marco Polo?
Name for a settlement controlled by its parent country.
What is a colony?
Economic thought in the 17th century, depending on large supplies of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
Spanish and Portuguese who held government positions and temporarily resided in Latin America.
What is peninsulares?
Art and science of map making that impacted navigation.
What is cartography?
An Italian man who sailed to the Americas under the rule of the Spanish.
Christopher Columbus
Pizzaro, Cortes, and other conquistadors were able to take over American empires, such as the Aztecs and the Incas because of....
What is weaponry?
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans through the triangular trade system.
What is the Middle Passage?
Permission granted to administrators in Peru to draft indigenous labor in mines.
What is the mita?
Instrument that always points to true North.
What is a compass?
He set up a school of navigation.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
Boundary line from north to south through the Atlantic, splitting who could claim which unexplored territories.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
System of enslavement that Europeans used after wiping out populations of indigenous people.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Social classes in Latin America were based on...
What is status?
Allowed European explorers to take advantage of indigenous people, originating from China.
What is gun powder?