Study Guide for Ch. 15 - The First Global Age: Europe and Asia  Terms and People to Know  

Ch 15 Sec 1. ( pgs 370 – 378)

Malacca        Marco Polo      The Spice Islands        Cartographers    astrolabe      caravel     compass       Mercator projection      sextant       Prince Henry the Navigator     Prester John         Bartholomeu Dias         Vasco da Gama        Christopher Columbus          Treaty of Tordesillas    Pope Alexander VI         Amerigo Vespucci         Vasco Nunez de Balboa       Ferdinand Magellan El Paso         circumnavigate         King Henry VII ( England )    John Cabot ( Giovanni Caboto)    Jacques Cartier      Henry Hudson          Sir Francis Drake

Ch 15 Sec 2. (pgs. 378-381)

Pagan     Anawrata      Khmer       Suryavarman II       Trung sisters

Ch 15 Sec 3. (pgs. 382 –386)

Raj      Afonso de Albuquerque        sepoys       Robert Clive     The British East India Company

Ch 15 Sec 4. ( pgs. 386 – 389)

Matteo Ricci  Myanmar ( Burma)  Qing Dynasty ( Manchus)  Kangxi    Qianlong   The Hermit Kingdom

Chapter 16 - The First Global Age: Europe, the Americas, and Africa

Ch 16 Sec 1 (Pages 392 – 397)

Taino Indians              conquistadors       Hernan Cortes              Malinche        The Aztecs             Moctezuma         Quetzalcoatl    Tenochtitlan           Francisco Pizarro     The Incas               Atahualpa

Ch 16 Sec 2 (pgs 397 –400 )                       

New Spain    viceroys   colonies  plantations     encomiendas    Bartolome de las Casas    New Laws of the Indies  peons    peninsulares   creoles   mestizos   mulattoes   The University of Mexico    Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Ch 16 Sec 3 (pgs 401 – 405 )

New France   Samuel de Champlain    Quebec     Louis XIV    13 English colonies   Jamestown, Virginia   Plymouth, Masachusetts    The Pilgrims    Mayflower Compact  The French and Indian War   The Treaty of Paris   

Ch 16 Sec 4 (pgs 405 – 410)       

The Middle Passage         Triangular Trade       King Affonso I       The Asante kingdom   Usman dan Fodio     Boers       Zulus     Shaka Zulu    The “ Great Trek”

Ch 16 Sec 5 (pgs 410 – 415)

The Columbian Exchange      The Commercial Revolution    inflation     capitalism  Entrepreneurs    joint stock companies      guilds     mercantilism   monopolies   tariffs    Katherine Boyle

Ideas to Understand:

• How did technology help Europeans explore the seas and build trading empires in Asia?
• Explain why European nations sent explorers across the oceans
• Identify the countries that led the way in overseas exploration
• Explain how trade helped shape Southeast Asia
• How did the winning of overseas empires affect the economy of Europe?
•  What global exchanges occurred as a result of European expansion overseas?
• Compare and contrast the governments of the Dutch, Spanish, French, and English.  
• How were different cultures of the world brought into contact during the 1500 and 1600s?

1.      Explain the reasons for European overseas exploration. What sorts of new technology did they use? What countries were the leaders in exploration?

2.      Describe and explain the Spanish and Portuguese influence on the Americas. What was the impact? What institutions did they impelement? How did other European countries react to Spanish influence in the New World?

3.      Describe and explain the conflict that occurred in the Americas between the different        

      European powers. ( Be specific and give at least three examples)

4.      Describe and explain what is meant by the Columbian exchange. How did three worlds collide in the 16th and 17th centuries?