Chapter 19

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

Afonso DeʻAlbequerque

The first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope was

Bartolomeu Dias

Most of the actual exploration of the Pacific Ocean was carried out by the

English

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

Enslaved Africans

The first circumnavigation of the world was completed in 1522 by

Ferdinand Magellanʻs crew

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

Fur

The English explorer James Cook dies during a fight in

Hawaiʻi

which of the following men conquered the Moroccan port of Ceuta and sponsored a series of voyages down the west African coast?

Henry of Portugal

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

James Cook

The center of the Spanish commercial activity in Asia was

Manila

The Philippines fell to

Miguel Lopes de Legazpi

The first European to dominate trade with Asia was

Portugal

Which of the following was not an advantage that the English and Dutch had over the Portuguese?

They had much better captains

The Portuguese mariner who sailed to Calicut in 1498 was

Vasco De Gama

The portuguese dominance of trade was dependent on their ability to

force merchant ships to call at fortifies trading sites and pay duties

In the end, Portugal was unable to maintain its early domination of trade because

it was a small country with a small population

The astrolabe was designed to measure

latitude

In the long term, the Columbian Exchange

led to economic instability because of a glut of chinese silver

Which of the following were both Chinese inventions?

sternpost rudder and magnetic compass

The most prosperous country in Europe in the seventeenth century was

the Netherlands

Which of the following was not one of the main inspirations for European exploration?

the desire to conquer China and India

The VOC was the

united east India company

Under Spanish rule of the Philippines, the native population

was pressured to convert to Roman Catholicism

Lateen sails had the advantage of

working better in crosswinds


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