AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.2 well answered graded A+

AMSCO AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN, Topic 4.2Christopher Columbus - correct answers Gained the Spanish monarchs' - Queen Isabella & King Ferdinand - support in 1492 for voyages across the Atlantic; his voyages helped increase the interest in discovery What did conquest bring? - correct answers They brought wealth to states thru tax collection & new trading opportunities; it also brought great material wealth, especially silver, to European states What stoked expansion? - correct answers Rivalries among European states & religion Mercantilism - correct answers A theory requiring heavy gov. involvement to max the amount of gold & silver coming into the country and min. the flow of precious metals out of the country; idea of maxing gov involvement to control resources for your country Portugal - correct answers A small kingdom, bounded on the east by the Spanish kingdoms of Castile & Aragon that could only expand overseas; 3 people led its exploration Prince Henry the Navigator () - correct answers 1st European monarch to sponsor seafaring expeditions, to search for an all-water to the east as well as for African gold; Portugal started importing African slaves by sea Bartholomew Diaz - correct answers He sailed around the southern tip of Africa, the Cape of Good Hope, in 1488, into waters his crew didn't know; he feared mutiny if he continued so he returned home Vasco da Gama - correct answers He sailed farther east than Diaz, landing in India in 1498 & claiming territory for Portugal; Portuguese ports in India were a key step in expanding Portugal's trade in the Indian Ocean & with points farther east