AP Euro: Unit 2 (1648-1815) Review

What were the results of the Protestant Reformation?

• The Catholic Church tried to overthrow the secular rulers of Europe.
• It ended religious unity in Europe and started a century of religious warfare and persecution.
• There were 2 popes, one in Italy and one in France and they excommunicated each other.
• The Protestant Reformation failed

A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Vasco de Gama
• Triangular Trade
• Treaty of Tordesillas

A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.

• Prince Henry
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Pizarro

Spanish conquistador that defeated the Incan empire. Although the Incan King, met his demands for rooms filled with gold & silver for the King's release. The King was strangled.

• Cortes
• Pizarro
• Capitalism
• Caravel

First man to led an expedition that circumnavigated the globe.

•  Pizarro
• Caravel
• Cortes
• Magellan

Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

• Caravel
• Pizarro
• Colonies
• Cortes

Occurs when a country exports/sells more goods to other countries than it imports/buys from other countries

• Favorable balance of trade
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Columbian Exchange
• Triangular Trade

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

• Capitalism
• Megellan
• Colonies
• Mercantilism

The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange
• Middle Passage
• Capitalism
• Colonization

A small easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations.

• Pizarro
• Capitalism
• Cortes
• Caravel