5813726313 | What Europeans countries were most powerful in trade? | Spain, Portugal, Britain, Holland, France | 0 | |
5813741000 | technology that improved European trade | - deep ships - compass - mapmaking - sails - explosives, guns/cannons | 1 | |
5813763356 | Portugese prince; organized expeditions on African coast/islands | Henry the Navigator | 2 | |
5813769417 | Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated by Portuguese in search of direct route to India | Cape of Good Hope | 3 | |
5813816165 | Portuguese captain; four ships sailed to India for spices, killed Indian merchants/violent | Vasco de Gama | 4 | |
5813786844 | Italian captain for Spanish; sailed to New World and returned in 1492, initiated European discoveries in the Americas | Christopher Columbus | 5 | |
5813798382 | Spanish captain who first circumnavigated the world; died during voyage; allowed Spain to control the Philippines | Ferdinand Magellan | 6 | |
5813876345 | How did Holland, Britain, and France become involved? | - strong, wealthy merchants - Protestants opposed Catholics - Spain/Portugal complacent - lighter, faster ships - focus on North America | 7 | |
5813866830 | joint stock companies that obtained monopoly over trade in Asia/India; acted as virtually independent government in regions it claimed | Dutch/British East India Company | 8 | |
5813883246 | East India Companies | - monopoly on all commerce - not supervised: form armies, coin money - more powerful than independent governments (Dutch ruled Taiwan, British India) | 9 | |
5833605103 | naval battle between the Spanish and Ottoman Empire resulting in a Spanish victory; setback to Muslim traders | Lepanto | 10 | |
5833621764 | _______ trade gained growing importance in supplementing _______ economies. | international regional | 11 | |
5833663405 | Why did Spain's trading fail? | bad banking system | 12 | |
5833670571 | nations that enjoyed profit from world economy; controlled international banking and commercial services; exported manufactured goods for raw materials | core nations | 13 | |
5833680441 | mercantilism | - nations didn't import goods from outside their empire - sell exports widely - discouraged manufacturing in colonies: tariffs | 14 | |
5833697465 | imports to Europe exports | metals, cash crops, slaves manufactured goods: guns, alcohol | 15 | |
5833779154 | people of mixed European and Indian ancestry in South/Mesoamerica; often part of forced labor systems | mestizos | 16 | |
5833871285 | dependent areas | South America, West Indies, North America, West Africa Southeast Asia India, Eastern Europe | 17 | |
5833880312 | first Spanish captain to begin settlement on the mainland of Mesoamerica; led to conquest of the Aztecs and Incas | Vasco de Balboa | 18 | |
5833882212 | led conquest of the Inca Empire in Peru | Francisco Pizarro | 19 | |
5833913493 | French colonies in North America; extended from the St. Lawrence River and down the Mississippi River valley | New France | 20 | |
5833923211 | fought in continental Europe and in overseas colonies; resulted in Prussian seizures of Austrian land and British seizures of colonies in India/North America | Seven Years War | 21 | |
5833926288 | arranged following the Seven Years War; gave New France to England in exchange for sugar island in Caribbean | Treaty of Paris | 22 | |
5834029826 | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope to provide a coastal station for the Dutch empire | Cape Colony | 23 | |
5834031495 | Dutch settlers in Cape Colony; in southern Africa | Boers | 24 | |
5834035519 | headquarters of British East India Company in Bengal in India; located on Ganges | Calcutta | 25 |
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