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Wealthy Dutch merchants formed the

_____ , which had many of the same

powers as a government.

What was the Dutch East India

Company?

A person who wants to convert others to

a religion.

What is a missionary?

A large farming estate often

worked by slave labor.

What is a Plantation?

A line drawn by the Pope that divided the non-European

worldbetween the Portuguese

& the Spanish

What was the “Line of

Demarcation”?

Early _____ made maps that aided in navigation and led

to new discoveries.

What are cartographers?

Support for Portuguese

exploration was led by _____.

Who was

Prince Henry the Navigator

Survivors of the voyage led by _______ became the 1st people

to sail around the world.

Who was Ferdinand Magellan?

To unite the Asante people _____

claimed that they shared spiritual

bonds.

Who Osei Tutu?

The ruler of Kongo, _____ tried to halt the slave trade in

his lands.

Who was Affonso I?

The 1st Portuguese explorer to reach

India by sea.

Who was Vasco daGama?

The island of ____, off the coast of India became a Portuguese

military & commercial base.

What is Goa?

The _____, or “Spice Islands” were a chief

source of spices.

What are the Moluccas?

The Portuguese seized the city of ___, a

trading center in the east coast of Africa.

What is Mombasa?

The rulers of Ming China allowed the

Portuguese to have a trading post at ___,

near Canton.

What is

Macao?

The southern tip of Africa became

known as the cape of _______.

What is

Good Hope?

Because the natives were not united,

Spain easily conquered these Pacific islands.

What are the Philippines?

This Japanese port city was visited by

Dutch traders.

What is Nagasaki?

The Boers were Dutch farmers

who settled in the southern part of what continent?

What is Africa?

This was the first European country

to challenge Portugal for control

of Asian trade.

What is Holland

(or the Netherlands,

or the Dutch)?

After the Japanese & the Manchus invaded,

this country responded by excluding foreigners from their nation and becoming

a “Hermit kingdom”.

What is Korea?

Muslim rulers from central Asia created the ___

empire.

What is Mughal?

When the Ming dynasty declined, the

Manchus set up

the ___ dynasty in China.

What is Qing?

Large amounts of American silver flowed into East Asia through this important Spanish

trading center?

What is the Philippines?

After Mughal power declined, this group of businessmen took control over most of

India?

What was the British East India

Company?

Europeans formed armies of Indian soldiers

called ____.

What is “Sepoys”

Make your wager

It was the critical mistake made by Christopher

Columbus when he left Spain in 1492 on a voyage to find a western route to

Asia.

What is underestimate the actual size of the

earth?