European Global Exploration - KSU

Book on the Marvels of the World

Reintroduces and motivates later explorers to riches of Asia

Portolani

Charts by medival navigators & mathematicians that included contours, port distance, compass readings, but on a flat scale so it was of les use in longer journeys

Motives

gold, glory god

Reqonquista

the effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain

Edict of Expulsion

An example of purification. It was a law that the Spanish made to make all of the Moors (Arab Muslims) and the Jews to convert or suffer torture and imprisonment.

Prince Henry the Navigator

made a christian kingdom to fight islam, returns home with gold, slaves, and sugarcane, explored west africa,

gets 1/8th profit church get 1/20

Prince Henry Goal

sail around tip of africa

Bartolemeu Dias

This Portuguese captain was the first European to reach the southern tip of Africa, which he named the Cape of Good Hope.

Alfonso de Albuquerque

gain control over spice trade(using small boats and guns), spread Christianity

Goa

indian headquarters set up by Alfonso de Albequerque

Pedro Cabral

Claimed Brazil for Portugal, sets up sugarcane plantations

Ferdinand and Isabella

This was the king and queen of Spain who took over the Catholic Spain and started the Spanish Inquisition

Christopher Columbus

He mistakenly discovered the Americas while searching for a faster route to India.

Amerigo Vespucci

A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.

Vasco Nunez de Balboa

Spanish explorer who became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean while exploring Panama

Ferdinand Magellan

Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 280 men (18 left when done), that was the first to sail around the world. Claim Philippines for Spain before being killed by local tribes.

El Cano

Finished the circumnavigation of the world after Magellan's death in the Philippines

Viceroys

(vice kings) representatives of the Spanish monarch in Spain's colonial empire

New Spain

(Cali to panama) mexico city capital

Peru

(panama to south america) cuzco capital

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.

Bartolome de la casas

wrote book(destruction of the indies), abolishes Encomedienda

Repartimiento

Spanish labor system in Latin America, supposed to replace the encomienda system, in which native communities were compelled to provide laborers for the farms or mines and the Spanish employers were expected to pay fair wages.

Pope Alexander VI

This was the pope that granted power to Ferdinand and Isabella to appoint bishops to the Spanish territories and also settled the argument between Spain and Portugal over South America

Treaty of Tordesillas

set the boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas.

New Amsterdam

(banking, trading, shipping center) Dutch colonial settlement that served as the capital of New Netherland. This later became "New York City"

France territory/profit goods

carriben(haiti), canada, Louisiana, fur trapping, sugarcane, fishing

John Cabot

English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage

Jamestown

1st successful new world colony