Chapter 14; The beginnings of our global age: Europe, Africa, and Asia – Flashcards
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Vasco da Gama
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lead four ships the of good hope.Reached the great spice port of Calicut on the west coast of India.
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Chistopher Columbus
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Italian navigater from Genoa who wanted to reach the east indies- a group of islands in the southeast Asia, today part of Indonesia- by sailing west across te Atlantic.
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Vasco da Gama
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lead four shipsaround the cape of good hope. Reached the great spice port of Calicut on the west caost of India.
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Line of Demarcation
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Dividing the non-European world into 2 zones. (done by pope)
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Treaty of Tordesillas
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where line of Democration were agreed to it, signed between two countries in 1494. (sort of property lines)
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Ferdinand Magellon
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set out from spain with five ships to find a way to reach the pacific
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circumnavigate
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sail around (the world)
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Moluccas
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an island chain in present day indonesia which Europeans then called the spice islands
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cartographers
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mapmakers
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Prince Henry
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had people make cartographers to map the parts of Africa.
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Prince henry
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took over and converted the northern africans people
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Prince henry
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claimed portugal, Maderia and azores islands to the west.
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Magellan
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traveled around the world and wrote a book to help future explorers
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Balboa
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Discovered the atlantic ocean
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Vasco Da Gama
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proved portugal as a world power.
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Mombasa
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Attacked by Portuguese who sailed around the continent. These were east African coastal cities which were hubs of international trade.
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Malindi
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Attacked by Portuguese who sailed around the continent. These were east African coastal cities which were hubs of international trade.
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Plantation
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large estates run by an owner or an owner's overseer.
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Affonso I
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Ruler of the Kongo in west-central Africa who wanted to create a modern Christian state by converting Africans to Christians. He also wanted to stop the slave trade, but was unsuccessful
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missionaries
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hoped to convert Africans and Asians to christianity
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Asante kingdom
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kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade
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Osei tutu
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Won control over the trading city Kumasi and said he ruled with a divine right. Traded gold, firearms and slaves, the chosen officials would watch over the bureacracy
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Monopoly
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the exclusive control of a business or industry.
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Oyo empire
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arose from successive waves of settlement by the Yoruba people of present-day Nigeria. Used wealth from slave trade to create impressive army and used said army to conquer niegboring kingdoms.
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Cape town
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The first permanent European settlement to supply ships sailing to or from the East indies. Founded by the dutch.
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Boers
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dutch farmers that settled in cape town.
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Afonso de Albuquerque
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Portuguese naval/military leader who ended Muslim control of the Indian Ocean trade--took Goa, Moluccas, and held much of SE under Portuguese control
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Mughal empire
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Muslim state (1526-1857) exercising dominion over most of India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Goa
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Portuguese factory or fortified trade town located on the Western Indian Coast; site for forcible entry into the Asian sea trade network.
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Malacca
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east indies port where Portuguese massacred the city's Muslims.
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Outpost
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distant areas under portuguease control
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Dutch east india company
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Government-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies.
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sovereign
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greatest in status or authority or power
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Philippines
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Taken over by and named after Philip 2nd.(Spanish)
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sepoys
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Indian troops
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Macao
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a Portuguese province on the south coast of China and two islands in the South China Sea
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Guangzhou
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city in China that was the only port that Europeans could trade through, also known as Canton
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Matteo Ricci
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An Italian Jesuit who by his knowledge of Astronomy and science was accepted as a missionary of China
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Manchus
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Federation of Northeast Asian peoples who founded the Qing Empire. (p. 556)
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Qing
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The Chinese government is ruled by this ethnically Manchurian dynasty during this period. They attempted to hold on to pre-industrial ways and resisted foreign involvement in their country (without success).
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Qianlong
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Chinese Qing emperor (r. 1736-1795), grandson of Kangxi who continued his grandfather's conquests by consolidating hold on Xinjiang province (westernmost). He made Vietnam, Burma and Nepal vassal states of China, and delegated responsibilities to his favorite Eunuchs, marking the decline of the Qing Dynasty
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Lord Macartney
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British diplomat; he visited China in 1793 to discuss expanding trade. He was sent away after his goods were found to be inferior and he refused to kowtow to the emperor
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Nagasaki
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Trading port, after Jesuit disputes, only the Dutch were allowed to reside here, and only for 2-3 months at a time
