1) Inspired search for knowledge

2) Re-emphasis on math

3) Invention of the printed book (spread of maps/texts)

Quadrant

Astrolobe

What were the names of the ships that were used for traveling?

Compared to other ships in the past, this ship was?

Caravels

Lighter and Faster

to protect against:

1) other ships

2) angry natives

Back then, monarchs competed based on what?

What is an example of this?

1) size of empire/trade

2) Portugal and Spain wanting to break Italy's monopoly w/ Asia

1) Find an all water route to Asia

2) FInd gold and slaves

Who was a rich supporter of navigation?

This person established a school for?

Prince Henry the Navigator

Navigation

Prince Henry was supporting  the exploration of what country?

He was hoping to find what?

1)Africas coastline

2) Gold, a lost Christian kingdom of Africa by King Prester John

1) Completing an all-water expedition to India

2) Ruining Italy's monopoly trade with Asia

Slaves were taken from where?

They were used to produce what?

1) Africa

2) Cotton, Coffee, Sugar

What country rejected Columbus and why?

Who and Which country financed his voyage?

1)Portugal- Gama had just returned on his all water voyage route from India

2) Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain

Where did Columbus think he landed (Country)?

Where was he?

1) Japan

2)Bahamas

1) Priest/ former conquistador.... father was with Columbus on 2nd voyage

2) Critiscized the treatment of Amerindians by spreading the "black legend" and use of Christianity to kill natives in his writing

What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?

Who urged the dividing?

What 2 countries were divided?

1) Portugal retaining Brazil and Africa claims; Spain gets rest of Americas

2) Pope Leo V

3) Spain got anything to left of Brazil; Portugal got Brazil and to the right of it including Africa

How did Spain expand their empire?

What was the Economic System in 16th Century?

Relate colonies and the mother country.

1) Old Imperialism (taking land)

2)Mercantilism

3) Colonies gave part of their money to the "mother country"

What was the Repartimiento?

What was its purpose?

1) Made natives work for a certain number of days per week and still retained some land

2) To reduce the savageness on natives so people would stop complaining

1) Established the strategy of coastal posts to control Indian Ocean

2) Made an empire in the Spice Islands after 1510

What did the Ductch East India Company do to the Portuguese?

To Spain in the New World?

1)Expelled them from Ceylon and other Spice Islands

2)Challenging their territory/controlling African/American Trade

What was Jacques Cartier in search of?

What was his settlement?

1)Northwest passage

2)Quebec in Canada/ 1st French settlement in New World

Why wasn't Henry VIII interested in John Cabot's exploration of the northeastern coast of North America?

What was the first English settlement?

1)No gold or siver were found

2)Jamestown

*more people came to New World from England than other countries

Who did the Royal African Company belong to?

What did they do?

1) England

2) Huge influx of African slaves into Caribbean and North America

What disease from the Spaniards was most likely to transfer to the Natives in the New World?

Natives to Spaniards?

1)Smallpox

2)Syphillis

Why were horses significant to Amerindians?

What animals were food sources?

What was the most important meat source in Europe from the New World?

1)Horse based cultures

2)Cows, Pigs, Sheep, Goats

3)Turkey

How is the Potato significant to Europe?

How are Corn, Pineapples, Tomatoes, etc. important?

Where did all of these come from?

1)Most important staple crop

2)Important foodstuffs

3)New World

1)Improved Diet

2)Increases Wealth

3)Rise of Global Empires