Chapter 14 trasquetball questions

3-masted ship that help more cargo and was more maneuverable

Caravel

Which Spanish explorer took over the Incas and killed Athahualapa?

Pizarro

Which group of people benefited the most from price increases in 16th century?

The middle class

Columbus set sail in 1492 searching for what?

A western trade route to Asia

This man was the first explorer to realize that the new lands was not Asia

Amerigo

At the time of his death Columbus believed the worlds he found were off the coast of what?

Asia

This priest asserted that Indians had human rights and suggested they use blacks as slaves

Bartolomé de Las Casas

Material profit was the primary motivation for what?

Exploration

Although he never completed the journey this mans crew was the 1st to circumnavigate the globe?

Ferdinand Magellan

The Spanish conquistador that conquered Mantezuma and the Aztecs?

Hernando Cortes

When Columbus landed in the Caribbean what did he believe he had found?

India

The European voyages of the 15th century were derived from a desire to share in the wealth of the ? ocean trade

Indian

Who created the essay?

Michel de Montaigne

The 16th century was known as the Golden Century due to what?

Mining of silver

Port cities controlled by this group of people resisted the Portuguese efforts to gain control of the Indian Ocean Trade

Muslims

The European kingdom that took the lead in overseas exploration was who?

Portugal

The 1st French settlement was found at Quebec by who?

Samuel de Champlain

How did the treaty of Tordesillas divide the land?

Spain got everything to the west of the line and Portugal got everything to the east

Before the Portuguese gained control of the spice trade in the Indian Ocean the trade was controlled by who?

The Ottomans (Muslims)

The importation of the African Slaves to the Americas in 16th and 17th centuries was because of what?

The cultivation of sugar

How did the English and French seek a route to East Asia?

They went west

In 1497 this man sailed around Africa and across the Arabian Sea. He was the first explorer to reach India

Vasco de Gama

Most of the gold that reached Europe came from where?

West Africa