Chapter 6: "The Age of Exploration"

Question	Answer
Consequences of European Expansion	-Colonization -Dramatic Growth in Slave Trade -Spread of Christianity
Melaka's Importance (if controlled by Portuguese)	-Important Spice Trade port -Would help destroy Arab Spice Trade -Would lead to a route to the Spice Islands.
Bartholomeu Dias rounds Cape of Good Hope	1488
Treaty of Tordesillas established	1494
Vasco da Gama arrives off the port of Calicut, India	1498
Spanish gain control of northern Mexico	1550
First countries to start rising in economic heights from world-wide trade	Portugal and Spain

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