McKay Chapter 14 Euro Exploration prep

According to his agreement with the Spanish Crown, rewards would Columbus receive if he found a water route to Asia?

He would be named viceroy over any territories he discovered and receive one-tenth of the material rewards of the journey.

The Treaty of Tordesillas

divided the Atlantic Ocean with an imaginary line, giving Spain control of everything west of the line and Portugal everything east of the line.

How did Magellan's circumnavigation of the globe affect Spanish Colonization?

The great distance of the Pacific convinced the Spanish to abandon efforts to trade in Asia and develop their American colonies Instead.

How did the English and French seek route to East Asia?

They sought a northwest passage across North America.

What was Hernan Cortes's crucial advantage in his conquest of the Mexica Empire?

Cortes was able to exploit internal dissention within the Mexica Empire.

Portugal's participant in European expansion was given critical support by...

Prince Henry.

How did the Spanish respond to the trap set by the Inca King Atahualpa?

The Spanish ambushed and captured Atahualpa, holding him for ransom and then executing him.

Settlers from the Massachusetts colony dispersed into new communities such as Connecticut and Rhode Island because...

There were religious disputes among the colonists.

How did the Spanish monarchy seek to maintain control over its colonies?

The monarchy established intendants with broad administrative and financial authority where responsible directly to the monarchy

At the time of his death, Columbus believed the islands he found were...

off the coast of Asia.

How did the encomienda system function?

The Spanish Crown granted conquerors the right to employ or demand tribute from groups of Native Americans in exchange for providing food and shelter.

Bartolome de Las Casas asserted that

the Indians had human rights

How did French colonies respond to the problem of the low migration levels from France?

Colonial officials encouraged French traders to form ties and marry native women.

How did English colonies differ from other major European colonies in their treatment of African Women?

English masters rarely freed the children that they fathered with female slaves.

How did Portuguese merchants obtain most of their slaves in Africa?

They trades for slaves with local leaders.

In the fifteenth century, two rival Islamic empires dominated the Middle East, the Turkish Ottomans and the

Persian Safavids.

The European voyages of the fifteenth century derived from a desire to share in the wealth of the

Indian Ocean trade.

How did justifications for slavery change from the fifteenth to eighteenth century?

Arguments supporting slavery began to focus more on science and nature and less on religion.

William Shakespeare's genius lay in all of the following except

the use of clear and unadorned expressions.

Who was Prester John?

A mythical Christian king in Africa

The group of people who benefited the most from large price increases in the sixteenth century was the

middle class.

Most women who crossed the Atlantic to the Americas were

Africans

The motivations for European explorers included all of the following except

fear of the Black Death

What was the primary cause of the emergence of inflation in Spain in the sixteenth century?

The inability of Spanish agriculture and manufacturing to meet the growing demand for goods