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Muslims and Italians
Who controlled trade with Asia in the 1400s?
Bartolomeu Dias
Who was the first European to reach the southern tip of Africa?
Conflicts between Spain and Portuguese
Why did Pope Alexander VI feel the need to issue the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Vasco da Gama
Who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa into India?
Portugal
What country was able to take away the spice trade from the Muslims?
To show China's wealth
Why did Zheng He distribute silk and other resources to people on his journeys?
They did not want their culture to be influenced
Why was China reluctant to industrialize?
Qing Dynasty was the only non Chiense Dynasty
What made the Qing Dynasty different than other Dynasties in Chinese history?
The idea of commerce went against China’s Confucian beliefs
Why was China reluctant to engage in open trade with Europe?
The Dutch accepted China's trading terms and they paid tribute to the emperor and participated in Chinese rituals.
Why were the Dutch one of the only countries China would trade with in the 1700's?
"Warring States"
After the feudal system collapsed in 1467, Japan entered what period?
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Who was responsible for unifying Japan?
Farmers abandoned their farms for cities
Why did Japan slowly become urban in the 1700s?
It made Samurai irrelevant. This required Japan to build fortified castles to withstand the cannonballs
How did European weapons impact Japan?
Japan constantly battled wanting the benefit of European trade without European influence
Why did Japan eventually resend into a "closed door policy"?
The Spanish took control
What happened when the Spanish arrived in the Aztec capital city?
Juan Ponce de Leon
Who discovered Florida for the Spanish?
They were not willing to adapt to their culture
While Southwest natives were willing to convert to Catholicism, they were not willing to do what?
They eventually kill the emperor
How did the civilians in the Aztec Empire respond to Cortes' arrival?
To ensure their laws are being obeyed
Why did Cortes and his men live among the Aztecs after they conquered them?
They took trade routes to India
Why did other countries in Europe sail West after Columbus?
Tobacco
What crop allowed for the English to thrive in Jamestown?
Anyone can settle if they follow the Dutch’s laws
What made the Dutch colony in the Americas different than others?
English expanded territories and violence, they ran into France
What caused the French and Indian War?
King Philip's War
One of the bloodiest conflicts between the English and Natives was _________
Breaking tools, worked slowly, and ran away
How did many African slaves resist working in the field?
20%
What percentage of Slaves died during the Middle Passage?
They were immune to European disease and they didn’t know the land
Why were Africans chosen for slave labor?
They would marry into families they served
How could slaves in Africa escape bondage?
The people were lost and families were separated
What consequence did slavery have on Africa?
Bartolomeu Dias
A Portuguese mariner and explorer
Vasco da Gama
A Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans
Treaty of Tordesillas
Divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire
Dutch East India Company
A charter company
Ming Dynasty
Chinese dynasty that lasted from 1368 to 1644 and provided an interval of native Chinese rule between eras of Mongol and Manchu dominance
Qing Dynasty
(1644–1911) was founded by a northeast Asian people who called themselves Manchus
Haiku
A Japanese poem form that consists of three lines, with five syllables in the first line, seven in the second, and five in the third
Kabuki
Traditional Japanese popular drama with singing and dancing performed in a highly stylized manner
Conquistador
explorer-soldiers of the Spanish and Portuguese Empires of the 15th and 16th centuries. During the Age of Discovery, they sailed beyond Europe to the Americas, Oceania, Africa, and Asia, colonizing and opening trade routes
Mestizo
A person of extended mixed Spanish and American Indian ancestry
Encomienda
A grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area
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