Exploration Age

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