The Age of Discovery/ Commercial Revolution Flashcards
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| 589962272 | Reasons behind the Advent of the Age of Discovery? | Virtu + Curiosity | |
| 551906226 | Who Portuguese encouraged exploration of the West Coast of Africa? | Henry the Navigator | |
| 589962273 | Examples of new technology that helped Europeans in their exploration? | Shipbuilding Sails Compass Astrolabes | |
| 551906227 | Portuguese explorer who 1st rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1487? | Bartolomeu Dias | |
| 551906228 | Portuguese explorer who 1st rounded Africa and landed in India in 1498? | Vasco da Gama | |
| 551906229 | Who 1st sailed along the coast of Brazil? | Amerigo Vespucci | |
| 551906230 | What cartographer gave "America" its title in 1507? | Martin Waldseemuller | |
| 551906231 | Who became the governor of Portuguese, India in 1509 who conquered Malacca? | Alfonso de Albuquerque | |
| 551906232 | Several examples of Entrepôts? | Goa, India Hermuz Malacca, Spice Islands Amboina | |
| 551906233 | After effect after the establishment of Entrepôt? | Venetian trade was severely hobbled and the prices of goods from the east plummeted in western parts. | |
| 553042691 | Whose voyages began in 1492 and brought great change to the New World. | Christopher Columbus | |
| 553042692 | Two Conquistadores who conquered natives societies? | Cortes Pizarro | |
| 553042693 | What system enslaved Natives in fields of gold and silver and was supposed to protect them from being overworked? | Encomienda system | |
| 553042694 | Silver mine in Peru that helped fund the wars of the Habsburgs? | Potosi | |
| 589962274 | Deadly disease, carried by pugs, that helped wipeout 95% of the Native American population? | Small Pox | |
| 553042695 | Who sailed around Cape Horn in 1520 and circumnavigated the globe. | Ferdinand Magellan | |
| 553042696 | A population in Spanish America through interracial marriage + Rape. | Mestizo | |
| 553042697 | During the Age of Exploration who enforced catholic orthodoxy? | Inquisition | |
| 553042698 | What line divided the Spanish and Portuguese colonies? | Line of Demarcation | |
| 589962275 | 1494 treaty that set up the Line of Demarcation, dividing the world betweem Portugal and Spain | Treaty of Tordesilles | |
| 553042699 | Who divided the Spanish and Portuguese colonies? | Pope Alexander VI | |
| 589962276 | Name given to the English privateers, such as Sir Francis Drake, who raided Spanish galleons? | Sea Dogs | |
| 553042700 | What English explorer sought the Northwest Passage? | John Cabot | |
| 589962277 | What French explorer sought the Northwest Passage? | Jacques Cartier | |
| 589962278 | Some causes of the slow and steady inflation that was part of the commercial revolution? | Population growth Increase in the demand for agricultural products Debased currency Increased mining | |
| 589962279 | Some "new" industries that boomed during the commercial revolution? | Shipbuilding Book printing and the book trade Mining Arms manufacturing (Cannon, muskets, uniforms) | |
| 589962280 | What led to the rise of banking and, therefore, increased commerce? | The end of the opposition to usury/interest | |
| 589962281 | What eastern Europeans sold agricultural goods prospered due to inflation? | Junkers | |
| 589962282 | The Junkers of Eastern Europe made fortunes off of? | The Baltic Grain Trade | |
| 589962283 | Nobility that stressed importance of family lineage | Nobles of the Sword | |
| 589962284 | Merchants, professionals (doctors, lawyers, etc.), clergy became increasingly powerful and important and were considered? | Bourgeoisie | |
| 589962285 | Some attempts were made to aid the destitute, e.g. the? | English Poor Law of 1601 | |
| 589962286 | Many peasants in England where foreced into____ and forced to work the? | Serfdom Robot | |
| 589962287 | Two major families who heled foster the growth in commerce? | Fuggers Medici | |
| 589962288 | Name of those who had the money to purchase noble titles? | Nobles of the Robe | |
| 589962289 | Economic developments that increase commercial activity by avoiding the guilds of the towns by constructing textiles at various locations throughout the countryside? | "Putting-out" system (domestic system) | |
| 589962290 | Economic systen that led to countries establishing colonies in order to establish a favorable balance of trade? | Mercantilism | |
| 589962291 | What type of government does Mercantilism create? | Nationalized | |
| 589962292 | English law that nationalized the process by which workers became apprentices, journeymen, and masters? | English Statute of Artificers (1563) | |
| 589962293 | Ways the governmetn encouraged the growth of domestic manufacturing under mercantilism? | Governments supported specific industries through Subsidies. Governments protected domestic industries through nationwide Tariffs Companies were given monopolies for trade in certain areas | |
| 589962294 | Companies that were chartered and given monopolies for trade in certain areas? | East India Companies | |
| 589962295 | Three figures who led the Dutch in the Age of Discovery? | William the Silent Maurice of Nassau Hooge Mogende | |
| 589962296 | Stadholder and leader of the Dutch resistance against Spain? | William the Silent | |
| 589962297 | What Dutch military commander advocated a strong standing army? | Maurice of Nassau | |
| 589962298 | Dutch name for Their High Maightinesses of the States General, the Dutch legislative assembly? | Hooge Mogende | |
| 589962299 | The Dutch developed great ____ to conduct their water-based commerce? They were ships that helped the Dutch become the world greatest 17th century mercantile power? | Fluyts | |
| 589962300 | Where did the Dutch conduct their water-based commerece? | Baltic Grain Trade | |
| 589962301 | What took Portuguese land and established New Netherland (1613) in the New World? | Dutch West India Co | |
| 589962302 | What became the epicenter of European commerce? | Bank of Amsterdam (1609) | |
| 589962303 | Who led the Great Fleet on 6 of its 7 voyages (1405-1433) throughout the Indian Ocean? | Cheng Ho | |
| 589962304 | Some Jesuits such as___, infiltrated China a little, but to no great avail? | Matteo Ricci | |
| 589962305 | In Persia during the Age of Discovery, who ruled for a time? | Safavids | |
| 589962306 | The Mughal Empire was developed by? | Babur | |
| 589962307 | Who built the Taj Mahal for his favorite wife? | Shah Jehan | |
| 589962308 | India eventually fell into decline until, ultimately, the British took over after 1763 and, post-1857, establishing? | The British Raj | |
| 589962309 | What in Ethiopia established a Christian nation to fight-off Islam? | Lions of Judah | |
| 589962310 | Rusruled by this Dynasty after 1613? | Romanov Dynasty |