A | B |
Mercantilism | how the European countries acquired wealth and power |
Vasco da Gama | Found trade route from Portugal to India |
Items traded by Chinese Empire | tea & porcelain |
shogun | military leader who ruled the government |
Columbus | found the Bahamas and Cuba, he thought he was in India |
Pizarro | Discovered the Incan civilization |
African exports | slaves, ivory & gold |
Francis Drake | explored for England |
Contributions of the Mughal Empire | Islam, Taj Mahal & textiles |
Commercial Revolution | European countries competed for overseas markets, colonies, and resources |
Original location of the Ottoman Empire | Asia Minor |
indigeneous | native to a certain place |
African imports | corn & peanuts |
plantation system | implementation of this destroyed native economies & increased the demand for slave |
What Southern India traded | silks, spices & gems |
Location of the Mughul Empire | Northern India |
What Constantinople was renamed | Istanbul |
Prince Henry | pioneered exploration but never made a voyage |
cash crops | sugan, coffee & cotton |
foreign enclaves | China's method of controlling foreign trade |
Cortez | discovered the Aztec Empire |
Magellan | first to circumnavigate the world |
Cartier | claimed Canada for France |
isolation | adopted by Japan to limit foreign influences |
triangular trade | three directional trade route between Europe, Africa and America |
items traded by Ottoman Empire | coffee & ceramics |
Columbian Exchange | traded agricultural products such as corn, pototoes, tobacco, horses and cattle |
Why Europeans wanted to explore | God, gold and glory |