World History Chapter 2 Study Guide

Known to the Europeans as the Spice Islands; chief source of the spices that had originally attracted the Portuguese to the Indian Ocean

Map makers

An imaginary line created by Alexander VI running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal

Agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.

Town on the southern tip of Africa which was set up by Dutch Immigrants in 1652 to supply ships sailing from the East Indies. It also was the first permanent European settlement in Africa

Sail around the world

Seaport on SE coast of Kenya partly on an offshore island, coastal city in Eastern Africa that was attacked by the Portuguese.

a coastal town in southeastern Kenya; became a trading hub for the Portuguese in Africa

Huge farms that required a large labor force to grow crops

A person sent on a religious mission.

A market in which there are many buyers but only one seller.

military bases, usually located on the frontier

A company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade throughout Asia. Richer and more powerful than England's company, they drove out the English and Established dominance over the region. It ended up going bankrupt and being bought out by the British

Ability of a state to govern its territory free from control of its internal affairs by other states.

A coastal city in southern Japan on the island of Kyushu; city in Japan where the second atomic bomb was dropped in August, 1945

One of two ports in which Europeans were permitted to trade in China during the Ming dynasty.

A coastal city in southeastern China also known as Canton

(1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonial empire.

A Portuguese sailor who was the first European to sail around southern Africa to the Indian Ocean

Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

(1480-1521) Portuguese-born navigator. Hired by Spain to sail to the Indies in 1519. Was killed in the Philippines (1521). One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe.

Ruler of the Kongo in West central Africa that spoke out against the slave trade.

kingdom that emerged in the 1700s in present-day Ghana and was active in the slave trade

Important ruler who began centralization and expansion of Asante.

Dutch settlers in south Africa

Muslim empire that ruled most of northern India from the mid-1500s to the mid-1700s; also known as the Mogul or Mongol empire

Indian soldier who served in an army set up the French or English trading companies

Jesuit priest. Made a particularly strong impression on the Chinese

People originally from Manchuria, who conquered the Ming dynasty and ruled China as the Qing dynasty from the mid-1600s to the early 1900s

Dynasty established by the Manchus in the mid 1600s and lasted until the early 1900s; China's last dynasty

A successful ruler from 1736 to 1796 he expanded China's borders to rule the largest area in the nation's history.

Arrived in China at the head of a British diplomatic mission. Brought samples of British-made goods to show the Chinese the advantages of trade with Westerners

Greatest person alive