AP World History Chapter Fifteen Notecards Flashcards

8287507997	Zheng He	An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. 15.431	0
8287511195	Arawak	Amerindianpeoples who inhabited the Greater Antilles of the Caribbean at the time of Columbus. 15.432	1
8287513700	Henry the Navigator	Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa in the fifteenth century. 15.434	2
8287513701	Caravel	A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic. 15.435	3
8287516035	Gold Coast	Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. 15.437	4
8287519225	Bartholomeu Dias	Portuguese explorer who in 1488 led the first expedition to sail around the southern tip of Africa from the Atlantic and sight the Indian Ocean. 15.437	5
8287522164	Vasco da Gama	Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route. 15.437	6
8287524922	Christopher Colombus	Genoese mariner who in the service of Spain led expeditions across the Atlantic, reestablishing contact between the peoples of the Americas and the Old World and opening the way to Spanish conquest and colonization. 15.437	7
8287528067	Ferdinand Magellan	Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world. 15.439	8
8287528068	Conquistadors	Early sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. 15.446	9
8287530750	Hernán Cortés	Spanish explorer and conquistador who led the conquest of Aztec Mexico in 1519-1521 for Spain. 15.446	10
8287534524	Moctezuma II	Aztec emperor who died while in custody of the Spanish con- quistador Hernán Cortés. 15.446	11
8287550234	Atahualpa	Last ruling Inca emperor of Peru. He was executed by the Spanish. 15.447	12
8287550236	Francisco Pizarro	Spanish explorer who led the conquest of the Inca Empire of Peru in 1531-1533. 15.447	13