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The transfer of plants, animals, and microbes among
Columbian exchange Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas that followed
Columbus's initiation of contact. (480)
An admiral and an important ally of the Yongle
Zheng He Emperor. He arranged and led the Ming voyages
during the fifteenth century. (461)
Seven large maritime voyages arranged by Zheng He
under the Yongle Emperor of China during the Ming
Ming voyages (1405-1433) dynasty. The extent of the voyages and the size of
their wooden ships were unprecedented, and they
served to project power as far as East Africa. (462)
A centuries-long Christian campaign to retake Iberia
from Muslim rulers. Europeans, especially Iberians,
viewed sailing expeditions as a way to continue the
Reconquista
Reconquista in new lands by spreading Christianity
and depriving Muslim states of wealth from trade.
(464)
, Descendants of North African Berbers, the Guanches
were inhabitants of the Canary Islands who fought
against Spanish conquest and settlement from 1402 to
Guanches
1496. Spanish weapons technology and the diseases
they carried with them eventually led to the defeat of
the Guanches. (464)
Born in Genoa, Italy, Christopher Columbus secured
funding from the king and queen of Castile (a
powerful state in Spain) to sail west from Europe and
Christopher Columbus
find a route to China in 1492. He instead found islands
in the Caribbean and inaugurated a new age of global
interconnection. (466)
A low-ranking Portuguese noble who led an
expedition in 1497 around the southern tip of Africa
and into the Indian Ocean in search of Christian allies
Vasco da Gama
and valuable spices for the Portuguese Crown. He
helped set up a lasting Portuguese presence in India
and East Africa. (468)
An important commercial port city on the southwest
coast of India. Its merchants traded various spices that
Calicut
were highly sought by Arab, Persian, and European
merchants. (468)
Spain and Portugal used this agreement to demarcate
a line halfway between Columbus's discoveries in the
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Americas and the Cape Verde islands off the coast of
West Africa. It gave all lands west of the line to Spain
and all lands east to Portugal. (470)
A Portuguese explorer whom the Spanish Crown
funded to find a route to the Moluccas by sailing west
from Europe and along the southern coast of South
Ferdinand Magellan America in 1519. He died in the Philippines after
crossing the Pacific, but his crew became the first
people to sail around the world and attained
knowledge of the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. (470)
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Terms in this set (74)
The transfer of plants, animals, and microbes among
Columbian exchange Eurasia, Africa, and the Americas that followed
Columbus's initiation of contact. (480)
An admiral and an important ally of the Yongle
Zheng He Emperor. He arranged and led the Ming voyages
during the fifteenth century. (461)
Seven large maritime voyages arranged by Zheng He
under the Yongle Emperor of China during the Ming
Ming voyages (1405-1433) dynasty. The extent of the voyages and the size of
their wooden ships were unprecedented, and they
served to project power as far as East Africa. (462)
A centuries-long Christian campaign to retake Iberia
from Muslim rulers. Europeans, especially Iberians,
viewed sailing expeditions as a way to continue the
Reconquista
Reconquista in new lands by spreading Christianity
and depriving Muslim states of wealth from trade.
(464)
, Descendants of North African Berbers, the Guanches
were inhabitants of the Canary Islands who fought
against Spanish conquest and settlement from 1402 to
Guanches
1496. Spanish weapons technology and the diseases
they carried with them eventually led to the defeat of
the Guanches. (464)
Born in Genoa, Italy, Christopher Columbus secured
funding from the king and queen of Castile (a
powerful state in Spain) to sail west from Europe and
Christopher Columbus
find a route to China in 1492. He instead found islands
in the Caribbean and inaugurated a new age of global
interconnection. (466)
A low-ranking Portuguese noble who led an
expedition in 1497 around the southern tip of Africa
and into the Indian Ocean in search of Christian allies
Vasco da Gama
and valuable spices for the Portuguese Crown. He
helped set up a lasting Portuguese presence in India
and East Africa. (468)
An important commercial port city on the southwest
coast of India. Its merchants traded various spices that
Calicut
were highly sought by Arab, Persian, and European
merchants. (468)
Spain and Portugal used this agreement to demarcate
a line halfway between Columbus's discoveries in the
Treaty of Tordesillas (1494) Americas and the Cape Verde islands off the coast of
West Africa. It gave all lands west of the line to Spain
and all lands east to Portugal. (470)
A Portuguese explorer whom the Spanish Crown
funded to find a route to the Moluccas by sailing west
from Europe and along the southern coast of South
Ferdinand Magellan America in 1519. He died in the Philippines after
crossing the Pacific, but his crew became the first
people to sail around the world and attained
knowledge of the vastness of the Pacific Ocean. (470)
