Chapter 16 key terms Flashcards
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15491973 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese mariner, reached India by sailing around the tip of Africa | 0 | |
15491974 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator for Spain, discovered Americas | 1 | |
15491975 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese captain in Spanish service, began first circumnavigation of the globe | 2 | |
15491976 | East India Companies | British, French, and Dutch trading companies that obtained government monopolies of trade to India and Asia | 3 | |
15491977 | World economy | created by Europeans during the late 16th century, control of seas, international exchange of foods, diseases, and manufactured products | 4 | |
15491978 | Columbian Exchange | Interaction between Europe and the Americas, Native americans died of smallpox, horses/cattle came | 5 | |
15491979 | Lepanto | Naval battle between Spain and the Ottoman empire resulting in Spanish victory | 6 | |
15491980 | Core nations | nations, usualyy European, that profited from the world economy, exported manufactured goods and imported raw materials | 7 | |
15491981 | Dependent economic zones | Regions within the world economy that produced raw materials. forced and cheap labor | 8 | |
15491982 | Vasco de Balboa | began first Spanish settlement on Mesoamerica, modern panama | 9 | |
15491983 | New France | French colonies in Canada and elsewhere | 10 | |
15491984 | Atlantic colonies | British colonies in North America along atlantic coast | 11 | |
15491985 | Treaty of Paris | Concluded in 1700s after Seven Years War | 12 | |
15491986 | Cape Colony | Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in Africa, station for ships traveling to India | 13 | |
15491987 | Boers | Dutch and other European settlers in Cape Colony | 14 | |
15491988 | Calcutta | British East India Company headquaters in Bengal | 15 | |
15491989 | Seven Years War | Fought in Europe, Africa, and Asia ( french- indian war) ( UK wins) | 16 | |
15491990 | Cape of Good Hope | southern tip of Africa | 17 | |
15491991 | Mercantilism | Economic theory that stressed governments' promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve taxes | 18 | |
15491992 | Mestizos | mixed European and Indian ancestry on Mesoamerica and South America | 19 | |
15491993 | Francisco Pizarro | Led conquest of Inca Empire | 20 | |
15491994 | John Locke | English philosopher who argued that people could learn everything from their scenses and reason | 21 | |
15491995 | William Shakespeare | Enigh poet and playwright, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet | 22 |