World History: Portugal (Unit 5)

Africa

Prince Henry initiated a program of exploration to find a route to the East Indies, by sailing around ________________.

Circumnavigate

To sail around (Vocabulary)

Papal Line of Demarcation

In 1480, to divide the new lands between Spain and Portugal, the pope drew the first:

Iberian peninsula

A peninsula in southwestern Europe consisting of the countries of Spain and Portugal (Vocabulary)

Moors

An ethnic group of mixed Berber and Arab stock living in northwestern Africa (Vocabulary)

True

By circumnavigating Africa, Vasco da Gama became the first European to reach the East Indies by sea. (T/F)

Cape of Storms

In 1487 Bartholomew Dias discovered the tip of Africa, which he called the:

Lacked resources, population, and size

Portugal only had difficulty colonizing because they:

Contact Japan and China

Portugal was the first European nation to:

Trading

Portugal's main source of economic support came through the business of ________________.

Brazil

Portugal's only colony in the New World was:

- lack of size - lack of resources - lack of population - conquest of Spain in 1580

What are the four reasons for Portugal's decline as a world power?

- Sumatra - Africa - China - Java - Japan - the New World

What countries or areas did Portugal contact, colonize, or establish posts in?

Mercantalism

The economic policy which included the idea that all colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country was: