HIS 101 CHAPTER 14 – Flashcards
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**Marco Polo
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Italian explorer who was important in regards to the Mongol Empire. He travelled to the court of Kublai Khan
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**God, Glory, and Gold
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The reason people went on voyages
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**Compass and Astrolabe
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The compass was similar to the Quadrant but instead of using degrees, it used points. An astrolabe is a graduated ring or disc fitted with a sighting rule pivoted at the center. The user then turned the sighting rule so that the sun or star could be sighted along it and the altitude read off the ring.
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**Prince Henry the Navigator
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ASK VIVIAN
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**Bartholomeu Diaz
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Portugese explorer that ventured into the Cape of Good Hope
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**Vasco da Gama
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Portugese ecplorer that ventured to Calicut, India, the epicenter of spice trade, and travelled to the Cape of Good Hope as well
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**Christopher Columbus
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Travelled for Isabella and Ferdinand of Spain and discovered/colonized the indigenous peoples of the Americas as well as brought diseases such as smallpox
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**Ferdinand Magellan
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Travelled across the globe but was unable to finish his travels because he was killed in what is now the Philippines.
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**Hernan Cortes
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Conquered the Incan empire and was from Spain
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**The Columbian Exchange
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The exchange between the New and Old Worlds, of goods, livestock diseases etc.
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(T/F) Marco Polo did not travel to the court of Khubilai Khan
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False
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(T/F) Printed editions of Ptolemy's 'Geography' did not become available until 1600, too late to make any significant difference in the efforts of early European explorers
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False
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(T/F) The first major Portuegese settlement in India was at Calicut
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True
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(T/F) The Inca Empire was the great Mesoamerican state when the Spanish arrived in the early sixteenth century
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False
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(T/F) In order to obtain slaves for sale to Europeans, local African rulers frequently raided defenseless villages in search of unsuspecting victims
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True
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It was not until the 1770s that sentiment in Europe began to build against the slave trade, initially with the Society of Friends
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True
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The primary motive for European exploration during the Renaissance was-
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economic, the desire for precious metals and new areas for trade
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The Italian merchant whose tales of the court of Kublai Khan popularized China in Europe was-
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Marco Polo
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The religious crusading motive for exploration was strongest in-
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Spain and Portugal
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The Pole star as a navigational device was useless -
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south of the equator
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Prince Henry the Navigator established the first school for mariners at his court in-
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Portugal
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Portugal became the early leader in European expansion largely through-
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defeating Muslim opposition in establishing trade opportunities with India
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The sea captain who first made a sea voyage directly from Europe to India was-
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Vasco da Gama
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In the 1440s, among the first profits the Portuguese derived from their maritime exploration and returning ships came from the sale of-
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African slaves
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Spanish expansion and exploration of the New World was best exemplified by-
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the conquest of the Aztec Empire by Cortes
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John Cabot, a Venetian, sailed for-
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England
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The first known circumnavigation of the earth is associated with-
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Ferdinand Magellan
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The Treaty of Tordesillas divided-
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the New World between Spain and Portugal
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The major European disease that resulted in high rates of mortality among the natives of the New World was-
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smallpox
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'Encomienda' were-
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a Spanish system devised to collect tribute from natives and to use their labor
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The Aztec empire, which Cortes conquered, was located-
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in central mexico
