Chapter 22 Transoceanic Encounters and Global Connections

magnetic compass

Chinese invention

a distance miscalculation

Christopher columbus's decision to sail west to reach Asia was based on?

the Philippines

Ferdinand Magellan established a trade route between Mexico and

enslaved Africans

From 1500 to 1800, the largest contingent of migrants consisted of

Afonso d'Alboqerque

Hormuz, Goa, ad Melaka were all seized in the early 1500s by

founding the city of Batavia on the island of java

Jan Pieterszoon Coen was responsible for

working better in crosswinds

Lateen sails had the advantage of

English

Most of the actual exploration of the pacific ocean was carried out by the

furs

Russian merchants and explorers began the expansion into Siberia in the quest for

16th century

Russian territorial expansion into northern Eurasia began in the

Hawaii

The English explorer James Cook died during a fight in

Miguel Lopes de Legazpi

The Philippines fell to

Manila

The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was

control the production of spices

The dutch policy in Indonesia was to

James Cook

The explorer who led three expeditions into the Pacific in the 18th century was

Portugal

The first European nation to dominate trade with Asia was

Ferdinand Magellan

The first circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1522 by

Vasco da Gama

The portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was

sugarcane

The portuguese viewed the Atlantic Ocean islands as the perfect location for the cultivation of

Bombay

Which city was not a Portuguese trading post

Henry of Portugal

Which man conquered the Moroccan port of Ceuta and sponsored a series of voyages down the west African coast

Australia

by 1750, all parts of the world participated in a global trade network in which Europeans played dominant roles, except

latitude

the astrolabe was designed to measure

Bartolomeu Dias

the first european to sail around the cape of good hope was

the Netherlands

the most prosperous country in Europe in the 17th century was

pepper and cinnamon

the profitable merchandise that vasco da gama purchased in india was made up of

increased world population because of the spread of new food crops

the the long term, the Colombian exchange

was pressured to convert to Roman Catholicism

under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population

Cuba

when he reached ________, Columbus sent delegates to seek the court of the emperor of china