Prince Henry
| started school for sailors |
Vasco deGama
| Portuguese - sails around Africa to India |
Bartholmeu Dias
| Portuguese - found southern tip of Africa |
Christopher Columbus
| Spanish - finds New World |
Amerigo Vespucci
| Spanish - discovers New World is not Asia |
Hernan Cortez
| Spanish - conquers the Aztecs |
Francisco Pizarro
| Spanish - conquers the Incas |
Ferdinand Magellan
| Spanish - leads expedition around around the world |
Henry Hudson
| Dutch - explores NY area |
John Cabot
| English - explores North America |
Middle Passage
| transport of slaves to the New World |
Jamestown
| English - first permanent settlement |
Pilgrims
| English - religious settlers in MA |
Zheng He
| Chinese - leads 7 voyages of exploration |
joint stock company
| let middle class citizens invest in businesses |
capitalism
| notion that people should keep the money they earn |
Columbian Exchange
| transfer of native plants and animals between Europe and the New World |
Tokugawa Shogunate
| Japan - military rulers of Japan until 1867 |
haiku
| Japan - form of poetry 5-7-5 |
Manchus
| China - founders of the Qing Dynasty |
Kangxi
| first Qing emperor |
Hongwu
| China - first Ming emperor, drove the Mongols out |
Yonglu
| China - Hongwu's son, moved the capital to Beijing |
Treaty of Tordesillas
| papal law that divided the world between Spain and Portugal |
Dutch East India Company
| controlled most of SE Asia and Indonesia |
Atahualpa
| Incan leader captured by the Spanish |
Francisco Coronado
| Spanish - explored from AZ to TX |
Jaques Cartier
| French - discovered the St Lawrence River, founded Montreal |
Samuel Champlain
| French - founded Quebec, France's first permanent settlement |
Metacom
| led and Indian uprising against British settlers in New England |