Topic 11- New Global Connections (1415-1796)

the global exchange of goods, ideas, plants and animals, and disease that began with Columbus' exploration of the Americas

• Columbian Exchange
• inflation
• price revolution
• capitalism

period of economic growth and change resulting from the interaction between Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europeans; spurred the growth of modern capitalism, banking, and investing

• Commercial Revolution

• price revolution
• capitalism
• entrepreneur

economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit

• capitalism
• entrepreneur
• free enterprise system
• mercantilism

person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit

• entrepreneur
• free enterprise system
• mercantilism
• tariff

policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver

• mercantilism
• tariff
• Commercial Revolution
• Line of Demarcation

a person who makes maps

• cartographer
• Goa
• Magellan
• Moluccas

a coastal city seized in 1510 that became the commercial and military base of Portugal’s India trade

• Goa
• Magellan
• Moluccas
• Vasco Da Gama

a Portuguese navigator who earned Spanish support for expedition to sail west and attempt to circumnavigate the world

• Magellan
• Moluccas
• Vasco Da Gama
• Prince Henry

an island chain in present-day Indonesia, which Europeans in the 1400s called the Spice Islands because it was the chief source of spices

• Moluccas
• Vasco Da Gama
• Prince Henry
• Guangzhou

a Portuguese prince who helped raise money for expeditions. His support of cartography, advances in navigation, and exploration provided a foundation for Portugal’s rise to international dominance and acquisition of its colonial empire in the sixteenth century.

• Prince Henry
• Guangzhou
• Dutch East India Company
• Philippines