VOCAB
A Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed as a dedicated cargo vessel.
Fluyt
Representatives of the Spanish monarch in Spain's colonial empire.
Viceroys
Who was the first European monarch to sponsor expeditions while looking for a waterway to Asia and African gold?
Prince Henry the Navigator
This was a person favoring a policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups, especially the political affairs of other countries.
Isolationist
The transformation to a trade-based economy using gold and silver...
Commercial Revolution
An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.
Mercantilism
A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination.
Indentured servitude
This explorer left Spain in 1492 and discovered the "New World"...
Christopher Columbus
This country/dynasty
-re-emphasized the importance of Confucianism
-Reinvigorated the traditional exam system
- Basically undid things from the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
China/ Ming Dynasty
What country experienced external conflict with the Dutch and English?
Portugal
A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.
Monopoly
75 feet long ship, long distance and fast speed. (Spanish and Portugal)
Caravel
What are the empires that are based on small outposts rather than control of large territories called?
What people were the first to be put to work? (eventually disease wiped out a large percentage of these people)
Indigenous people
This allowed investors to share profits but not the risk...
Limited Liability
250 feet long ship, large for trade. (Portugal)
Carrack
Russian landholding aristocrats; possessed less political power than their western European counterparts.
Boyars
Who was the famous Chinese explorer who traveled to the outside world?
Zheng He
What was the company that established forts on the coasts that focused solely on making a profit (not for the country)?
East India Company
This was a warrior group that developed and fought the Mughal to take control...
The Maratha
Land granted by the Ottoman sultans with a tax revenue annual value of less than 20 000 acres. The revenues produced from land acted as compensation for military service.
Timars
A blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith.
Syncretism
Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors took over the what?
Aztec Empire
What resource was Spain actually looking for when they found a lot of silver?
Gold
Cossacks