Topic 2 Vocabulary

an Italian explorer and navigator who went on Mediterranean and Africa expeditions, thought up a plan to sail west to reach India and China, and found support from the Spanish monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella. In 1492, he sailed west from Spain and reached the Caribbean Islands, which he mistakenly thought were the Indies of Asia.

• Christopher Columbus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Prince Henry

• Afonso de Albuquerque

King George III sent him on an unsuccessful mission to persuade Emperor Qianlong of China to allow British traders into northern port cities.

• Lord Macartney

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Francisco Pizarro

• Christopher Columbus

Dutch farmers who settled in Cape Town, Africa, and eventually migrated inland

• creoles

• mestizos

• Boers

• conquistadors

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

• sepoy

• sovereign

• creole

• encomienda

A person who makes maps

• outpost

• cartographer

• conquistador

• creole

Italian scholar and Jesuit priest who traveled to China. In 1589, he began to teach Chinese scholars European mathematical ideas.

• Christopher Columbus

• Bartolome de Las Casas

• Matteo Ricci

• Prince Henry

Muslim empire that ruled most of northern India from the mid-1500s to the mid-1700s

• Qing Dynasty

• Ming Dynasty

• Aztec Empire

• Mughal Empire

the first permanent European settlement in Africa, established by the Dutch in 1652

• Cape Town

• Goa

• Malacca

• Philippines

Goa was a coastal trading post city in India founded by the

• Dutch

• Portuguese

• Spanish

• Italians

"circumnavigate" means to

• travel across the Atlantic

• travel around the world

• travel around Africa into the Indian Ocean

• travel via spaceship