AP World Flashcards

6000534597	Prince Henry	Portugal's prince who led supported the exploration	0
6000543890	Vasco da Gama	Portuguese explorer who travel around the Cape fo Good Hope and reach India	1
6000553504	Christopher Columbus	Led his voyage Maryweather and explore America	2
6000559037	Treaty of Tordesillas	Pope establish alone of demarcation on a longitudinal line that runs through Atlantic, Portugal occupies the east and Spain occupies the west	3
6000572715	Amerigo Vespucci	Explores south America on several trips around 1500, America was named after him.	4
6000577903	Ponce de Leon	In 1513, he explores Florida for Spain in search of the fountain of youth	5
6000582258	Vasco de Balboa	In 1513, he explores much of Central America for Spain, laid sight on Pacific Ocean	6
6000587634	Ferdinand Magellan	His voyage traveled around the World, but he was killed by the Philippians	7
6000595645	Giovanni da Verrazzano	In 1524, he explores the North American coast for France	8
6000598082	Sir Francis Drake	In 1578, he became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe	9
6000602829	John Cabot	In 1597, he explores the coast of North America for England	10
6000606868	Henry Hudson	Beginning in 1609, he sailed for the Dutch, looking for a Northwest Passage to Asia. He found the Hudson River and claimed it for the Dutch	11
6000616094	The Sternpost Rudder	Invented by China during Han dynasty, it allows for better navigation and control of ships and increasing size	12
6000628467	Lateen Sails	Invented by the Muslims, allows ships to sail in any direction regardless of wind	13
6000638160	The Astrolabe	Sailors used this portable navigation device, developed in the Hellenist world, by measuring the distance of the sun and the stars above the horizon to help determine latitude	14
6000651750	The Magnetic Compass	Chinese invented it to determine direction without stay in sight of land （指南针）	15
6010507451	Three Masted Caravels	The Large ships that could hold large goods in long journey	16
6010516857	Hernan Cortes	He landed in Mexico in 1519 with 600 men, and he interacted with the Aztecs, and soon began to conquer Tenochtitlan	17
6010535050	Francisco Pizarro	He set 200 men to search the Inca empire, and the Incans died because of diseases	18
6010542224	peninsulares	People born in Spain	19
6010543855	Creoles	European born in colony (George Washington)	20
6010549003	mestizos	mixed of White and Indians	21
6010554426	mulattos	mixed of white and Africans	22
6010557917	viceroy	appointed governors of the five vice-royalties of Spain: New Spain, New Granada, Peru and Rio de La Plata	23
6010708315	Las Casas	protect the Indians	24
6010791317	Sepulveda	enslave the Indians	25
6010797648	Potosi	The biggest silver mine in Peru	26
6010800431	Mercury	Spanish became the first country to use mercury to mine silver	27
6010815723	Malacca and Batavia	The Dutch colony in Asia, spice islands	28
6010827051	Deshima	The only Japanese port that is open to the Europeans (only for the Dutch)	29
6010832936	Barbados and Jamaica	The British colony in Caribbean, the wealth in Barbados is more than three American States	30
6010883051	encomienda	a system of forced labor, slavery	31
6010889461	Middle Passages	Africans was forced to go through the Middle Passages on ship, at least 13 million Africans were taken	32
6010913492	Columbia exchange	plants, animals, ideas, religions, diseases and all kinds of things. (most importantly, sugar and silver)	33
6010924650	Joint-Stock company	an organization created to pool the resources of many merchants, thereby distributing the costs and risks of colonization and reducing the danger for individual investors	34
6010945618	Muscovy Company	Monopolized the trade route to Russia by England	35
6010953569	Dutch East Indian Company	Controls the route to the Spice Islands in Asia	36
6010956195	mercantilism	a country actively sought to trade, but try to import more than export.	37