Exploration Flashcards

285933831	Commercial Revolution	European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism which lasted from 1500s to 1700s	1
285933832	Leaders in Exploration	Spain, Portugal, England, and France	2
285933833	Why explore now?	eliminate Muslim middleman and discover trade routes to Asia; able to because of new tech	3
285933834	Portugal	Prince Henry the Navigator; Bartholomew Dias; Vasco de Gama; Brazil - plantations	4
285933835	Spain	Christopher Columbus; Reconquista; Magellan; Ferdinand and Isabella; Inquisition	5
285933836	Treaty of Tordesillas	line of demarcation through west Atlantic; P = East; W = Spain	6
285933837	England	parliamentary monarchy following civil war; competed w/ Netherlands and France; focus on N. America; join stock; Plymouth; Jamestown	7
285933838	France	absolute monarchy; Louis XIV; social = nobles, peasants, clergy; colonies N. America and Car.	8
285933839	Henry Hudson	Hudson Bay	9
285933840	Vespucci	South America	10
285933841	Ponce de Leon	Florida	11
285933842	Balboa	Central America, isthmus of Panama	12
285933843	Verrazano	North America	13
285933844	Sir Francis Drake	circumnavigate the globe	14
285933845	Cabot	coast of North America	15
285933846	Sternpost rudder	China (ship technology)	16
285933847	Lateen sails	allow ship to sail in any direction regardless of wind direction	17
285933848	caravel	Arabic ship	18
285933849	Conquistadors	Cortez, Pizarro conquer Aztecs and Incas because of weapons, diseases	19
285933850	Encomienda	Spanish colony labor system	20
285933851	Social structure of Spanish colonies	peninsulares, creoles, mestizos, and mulattos	21
285933852	Viceroys	Govern viceroyalties	22
285933853	Columbian Exchange	exchange of goods, ideas, and diseases between Western and Eastern hemisphere	23
285933854	North America to Europe	caco, metals, turkeys, potatoes, beans, etc.	24
285933855	Europe to North America	disease, cattle, plants	25
285933856	American food	pop. increase	26
285933857	Sugar in Caribbean	Plantations	27
285933858	Disease	kills natives	28
285933859	Mercantilism	favorable balance of trade by taking in as much gold/silver as possible and not buying foreign goods	29
285933860	Joint stock companies	pool resources, distribute costs and risks of colonization, monopolies, and exploitation of colonies	30
285933861	Trading companies	Dutch East India, British East India, Muscovy	31
285933862	Portuguese	trading post in Goa on west coast of India; control Spice Islands = naval superiority in Malacca; lost power due to Dutch, English, and French	32
285933863	Slavery in B & C	Harsher because of more racial mixing	33
285933864	Govt. B & C	bureaucracies w/ set social hierarchies	34
285933865	Govt. in N.A.	local self govt.	35
285933866	Economic in B & C	large scale sugar production	36
285933867	Economic in N.A.	small scale	37
285933868	L.A. British religion	Catholic	38
285933869	L.A. British slavery	More slavery	39
285933870	L.A. British pol.	bureaucracies w/ set social hierarchies	40
285933871	3 Trade zones	Core, Periphery, and External	41