AP World Chapter 16 Voab

Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 in search of direct route to India

Genoese captain in service of king and queen of Castile and Aragon; successfully sailed to New World and returned in 1492; initiated European discoveries in Americas.

Spanish captain who in 1519 initiated first circumnavigation of the globe; died during the voyage; allowed Spain to claim Philippines.

Joint stock company that obtained government monopoly over trade in Asia; acted as virtually independent government in regions of control

Joint stock company that obtained government monopoly over trade in India; acted as virtually independent government in regions of control.

Naval battle between the Spanish and the Ottoman Empire resulting in a Spanish victory in 1871.

Nations, usually European, that enjoyed profit from woeld economy; controlled international banking and commercial sevices such as shipping; exported manufactured good for raw materials.

Economic theory that stresed governments' promotion of limitation of imports from other nations and internal economies in order to improve tax revenues; popular during 17th and 18th centuries in Europe.

First Spanish captain to begin settlement on the mainland of Mesoamerica in 1509; initial settlement eventually led to conquest of Aztec and Inca empires by other captains.

Led conquest of Inca Empire in Peru beginning in 1535; by 1540, most of Inca possessions fell to the Spanish.

French colonies in North America; extended from St. Lawrence River along Great Lakes and down Mississippi River valley systems.

Fought both in continental Europe and also in overseas colonies between 1756 and 1763; resulted in Prussian seizures of land from Austria, English seizures of colonies in India and North America

Arranged in 1763 following Seven Years War; granted New France to England in exchange for return of French sugar island in Caribbean.

Dutch colony established at Cape of Good Hope in 1652 initially to provide a coastal station for the Dutch seaborne empire; by 1770 settlements had expanded sufficiently to come into conflict with Bantus.

Dutch settlers in Cape Colony, in southern Africa.

A Portuguese explorer who was the first to reach India by water.

Actually discovered the Americas. He realized that he was on a seperate continent and had the lands named after him.

A Spainsh conquistador that conquered the Aztecs

The transferring of of plants, animals, people, and disease from the Americas to Europe.