AP World History Chapter 17 Flashcards

8059423991	Christopher Columbus	Genose Captian in service of king and queen of Castile and Aragon; succsesfully sailed to new world and retuned in 1492	0
8059423992	Ferdinand Magellan	Portuguese captain in spanish service; began the first circumnavigation of the globe in 1519; died during voyage; allowed Spain to claim possession fo the Philippines	1
8059423993	East India Company	Joint stock company that obtained government monopoly over trade in Asia; acted as virtually indepent goverenment in regions it claimed	2
8059423994	World Economy	Established by europeans in 16th century; based on control of seas, including Atlantic and Pacific; created international exchanges of food disease and products	3
8059423995	Columbian Exchange	Biological and ecological exchange that took place folling the Spanish establishment of colonies in the New World; peoples of Europe and Africa came to New World	4
8059423996	Lepanto	Navel battle between the Spanish and the Ottoman Empire resulting in a Spanish victory in 1571	5
8059423997	Core Nations	Nations, usally European, that enjoyed profit from world economy; controlled international banking and commercial servicessuch as shipping	6
8059423998	New France	French colonies in North America; extended from St Lawerence River along great lakes and down Mississippi River	7
8059423999	Treaty of Paris	Arranged in 1763 following Seven Years World; granted New France to England in exchange for French suger island in Caribbean	8
8059424000	Cape Colony	Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 initially to provide a coastal station for Dutch seaborne empire; by 1770 settlements had expanded sufficiently to come into conflict with with Bantus	9
8059424001	Boers	Dutch settlers in the Cape Colony, in southern Africa	10
8059424002	Calcutta	Headquarters of British East India Company in Bengal in Indian subcontinant;located on Ganges; captured in 1756 during early part of Seven Years War; later became administrtive center for all of Bengel	11
8059424003	Seven Years War	Fought in both Europe and overseas colonies between 1756 and 1763; resulted in Russian seizures of land from Austria, English seziures of colonies in India and North America	12
8059424004	Cape of Good Hope	Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India	13
8059424005	Mercantilism	Economic theory that stressed governments' promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economics in order to improve tax revenues; popular during 17th and 18th centuries in Europe	14
8059424006	Mestizos	People of mixed European and Indian ancestry in Mesoamerica amd South America; particulary prevalent in areas colonized by Spain	15
8059424007	John Locke	English philosopher during 17th century; argued that people could learn everything through senses and reason; argued that power of government came from the people, not divine right of kings; offered possibility of revolution to overthrow tyrants	16
8059424008	Vasco de Balboa	a Spaniard, who in 1513 crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first known European to gaze westward upon the great ocean that separated America from China.	17
8059424009	Francisco Pizzaro	Led conquest of Inca Empire of Peru beginning in 1535; by 1540, most of Inca possessions fell to the Spanish	18
8059424010	Vasco da Gama	Portuguese captain who sailed for India in 1497; established early Portuguese dominance in Indian Ocean	19
8059424011	Dependent Economy	-	20
8059424012	Atlantic Colonies	British colonies in North America along atlantic coast	21
8059424013	William Shakespeare	English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)	22