Chapter 19
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
