World Civ 17.1
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- Who controlled the spice trade in Asia and Europe?
- Arab and Venetian merchants
- Circling of the globe
- circumnavigation
- Whose crew was the first to circumnavigate the world?
- Magellan
- Which society invented the compass?
- china
- Discoveries of Prince Henry later became the foundation for what?
- Portugese Empire
- Strait at the bottom of s. america?
- strait of magellan
- Portugal's main interests?
- Africa, Asia, trade
- Who introduced the grid system of map references?
- Ptolemy
- Where did Vasco de Gama sail to?
- India- Calicut
- What was the southern tip of Africa calleD?
- Cape of Good Hope
- Who brought together mapmakers, mathematicians, astronomers, etc to study navigation?
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Was Vasco de Gama successful?
- no
- Why did Europeans start looking for sea routes to Asia?
- Mongols couldn't guarentee safe passage on overland routes
- What did Vasco de Gama find in Calicut?
- Hindus and Muslims trading silk, procelain, and spices
- Where did Columbus explore?
- Hispaniola, Cuba
- New triangle-shaped lateen sails perfected by the Arabs did what?
- ships could sail against the wind
- 1400s- European ship that incorporated all new naval improvements called what?
- caravel
- Purpose of spices?
- flavor/preserve meat, perfumes, cosmetics and medicine
- Open-water ocean sailing required ships to do what that hadn't been done before?
- left the coastline
- 1400s- Spain entered the race for Asian riches by backing the expeditions of who?
- Columbus
- In 1507, who suggested that Columbus had actually discovered a new world?
- amerigo vespucci
- Mapmakers
- cartographers
- What did Dias's voyage prove?
- ships could reach asia by sailing around africa
- Who discovered the southern tip of Africa?
- Barthologmeu Dias
- Who renamed the south sea to pacific ocean?
- magellan
- 1300s- Europeans depended on what from Asia and India?
- spices
- Who discovered the Pacific ocean?
- Balboa
- 1519- who wanted to find a west. route to Asia and faced mutany, found a strait, etc?
- Magellan
- 1493- pope drew this imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic (spain had west, portugal had east).
- line of demarcation
- What did Portugal and Spain sign to move the line of demarcation farther west?
- treaty of tordesillas
- Who perfected the astrolabe?
- Arabs
- 1400s- explorers left because of what?
- desire for gold, glory and spreading religion