World History Ch. 14 – Flashcards
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How did European interest in the spice trade lead to the discovery of new routes and lands?
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The Spice Trade in Europe led to the Europeans discovering new routes in order to further get to Asian countries to acquire these spices.
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How did new sea routes lead to an expanded European presence in Africa?
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Because the Europeans found trade routes around the entire continent of Africa, exploring places never before seen. They took advantage and took slaves and built empires there. All because of new trade routes around the continent
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What legacy did the Portuguese leave in Africa?
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How did Portugal gain dominance of the spice trade?
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Potruguese has military and trading outposts rimming the southern seas. They seized cities on the east coast of Africa so they could resupply and repair. Most of the 1500s, portgual controlled the spice trade betwenn Europe and Asia
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How did the Dutch use their foothold in Cape Town to develop an overseas empire
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The colony at Cape Town served as a way-station for Dutch ships on the route between Europe and Asia.
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What effect did European trade have on the Mughal empire?
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The European countries found their place in the Mughal empire, gradually gaining more power over the trade and, consequently, over the empire until the British colonized the Indian subcontinent in the 19th century.
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Why were East Asians generally resistant to European trade and ideas?
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A major problem in the European trade with Asia at the time was that the Europeans could offer few goods that Asian consumers wanted, except silver and gold.
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Henry the Navigator
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Bartholomeu Dias
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Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope (thus establishing a sea route from the Atlantic to Asia) (1450-1500)
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Vasco da Gama
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Christopher Columbus
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Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
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Prester John
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The Line of Demarcation/Treaty of Tordesillas
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Ferdinand Magellan
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Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain
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Plantations
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Dutch East India Company
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Sepoys
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The Manchu Conquest / Matteo Ricci
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