Chapter Fourteen Test For Ap Euro

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-Explorer who wrote the Travels
-most informative description of Asia
-from Venice

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Marco Polo

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-Built school of navigation in Portugal
-contributed to the exploration of Africa, rounding the coast
-His blend of seeking a Christian kingdom as an ally against the Muslims, acquiring trade opportunities for Portugal, and extending Christianity

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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charts made by medieval navigators and mathematicians

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portolani

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-astronomer of the second century A.D.
-the Geography, world map that was spherical with three hemispheres

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Ptolemy

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Portuguese sea captain who took the opportunity of westerly winds and rounded the tip of Africa

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Bartholomeu Dias

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-Portuguese sea captain who rounded the Cape of Good Hope and reached India (Calicut on the southwestern coast)

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Vasco da Gama

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Portuguese admiral who built the port at Goa on the west coast of India
-gained control of the Spice Islands for Portugal

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Alfonso de Albuquerque

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Explorer who thought Asia could be reached by sailing west
-travels sparked widespread interest in new world

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Christopher Columbus

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-Venetian seaman who was hired by King Henry VII of England to explore the New England coastline

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John Cabot

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-Florentine explorer who went along on several voyages to the New World
-work of writing initiated the use of the word America
-geography of new land

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Amerigo Vespucci

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-Portuguese sea captain who discovered South America

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Pedro Cabral

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-Spanish exlporer who led an expedition across the Isthmus of Panama and reached the Pacific Ocean in 1513

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Nunez de Balboa

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-Portuguese explorer who was convinced he could find a passage to Asia through America
-first person to circumnavigate the world
-sea passage to Asia thru America
-reached the Phillipines

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Ferdinand Magellan

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leaders in Spanish conquest in the Americas

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conquistadors

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-Spanish conquistador expedition
-commander of Spanish expedition that landed and proceeded to take over the Aztecs in Mexico

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Hernan Cortes

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-Spanish explorer who conquered the Incans in Peru and captured Peru for Spain

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Francisco Pizarro

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-permitted the conquering Spaniards to collect tribute from the natives and use them as laborers

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encomienda

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-the king's chief civil and military officer

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viceroy

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-advisory group

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audiencias

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-a trading company established in 1602 under gov. sponsorship
-set up a settlement in southern Africa, at the Cape of Good Hope, which was meant to serve as a base to provide food and other provisions to Dutch ships en route to the Spice Islands

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Dutch East India Tea Company

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a pattern of trade in early modern Europe, Africa, and the Americas in an Atlantic economy

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triangular trade

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the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas as the middle leg of the triangular trade

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Middle Passage

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-aggressive British empire builder who became chief representative for the East India Company
-consolidated British control in Bengal

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Sir Robert Clive

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first Portuguese Jesuit missionary to Japan
-success in converting the local population in Japan

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Francis Xavier

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French explorer who discovered Saint Lawrence River
-laid French claim to Canada

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Jacques Cartier

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offspring of intermarriage between Europeans and native American Indians

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mestizos

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offspring of Africans and whites

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mulattoes

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French explorer who established settlement at Quebec
-then Canada made property of French crown

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Samuel de Champlain

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-literary figure in Latin America
-Catholic nun

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Sor Juana Inex de la Cruz

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the reciprocal importation and exportation of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas

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Columbian Exchange

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-Flemish cartographer who made a conformal projection with his maps
-tries to show true shape of landmasses, but only in a limited area

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Gerarus Mercator

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the dramatic rise in prices (inflation) that occurred throughout Europe in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries

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price revolution

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a company or association that raises capital by selling shares to individuals who receive dividends on their investment while a board of directors runs the company

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joint-stock company

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an economic theory that held that a nation's prosperity depended on its supply of gold and silver and that the total volume of trade in unchangeable; its adherents therefore advocated that the gov. play an active role in the economy by encouraging exports and discouraging imports, especially through the use of tariffs

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mercantilism

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head of one of the wealthiest banking firms of the 16th century-----a world economy

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Jacob Fugger