Chapter 11: Age of Exploration and Trade

Who did Columbus begin trading with once claiming San Salvador for Spain?

What group began to form joint-stock companies in the 1600s?

What is the theory that a country's power depends on its wealth?

What did merchants call the hiring of peasants to make goods for homes?

What Englishman failed to find a waterway to Asia in 1497?

In 1519, who took control of the Aztec Empire?

Who worked for Balboa while not knowing how to write their own name?

What hired Spain explorer had the goal to sail around the Americas and then to Asia?

In 1500, settlers in Brazil grew sugarcane, tobacco, coffee, and cotton, but also known as what?

Who had ambushed Inca ruler Atahualpa during a discussion, leading to the fall of the Inca?

What explorer claimed Brazil, located in South America, for Portugal?

When Henry the Navigator traveled west into the Atlantic Ocean, he captured Madeira, Cape Verde, and what else?

In 1492, who had been sailing for weeks until being greeted by Spaniards?

In August 1492, where did Columbus land with the Santa María, the Niña, and the Pinta?

What traders established New Amsterdam on Manhattan Island in 1621?

Who rounded the tip of Africa and would land on India's southwest coast around 1497?

What Portuguese explorer sailed to the southern tip of Africa in 1488?

What was the outcome of the European global trade expansion, which went on to spread disease?

What Greek geographer was rediscovered by Europeans by the 1400s?

What disease would kill more Aztecs than the Spanish?