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ch.16 terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a sailing vessel that uses square and triangular sails to help it sail against the wind. | caravel |
| the son of king John I of Portugal. | Henry the Navigator |
| set out for India in 1497. | Vasco da Gama |
| believed that he could sail west around the world from Spain to China. | Christopher Columbus |
| decided to sail west around the world. | Ferdinand Magellan |
| to proceed completely around. | circumnavigate |
| to round the tip of south America and explore its west coast. | Sir Francis Drake |
| in 1607 Hudson set out to the north hoping to find a northeast around Europe. | Henry Hudson |
| Spanish colonial system in which a colonist was given a certain amount of land and a number of Native Americans. | encomienda |
| led an expedition to Mexico that ended with the conquest of the Aztec Empire. | Hernan Cortes |
| a Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the and captured land for Spain. | conquistador |
| at the time of the Spanish arrival in Mexico the Aztec emperor was. | Moctezuma II |
| led an expedition to Peru. | Francisco Pizarro |
| had only just taken control of the empire when the Spanish arrived. | Atahualpa |
| officials who ruled Spain's American empire | Viceroys |
| the most vocal of these reformer was a priest named | Bartolome de Las Casas |
| the agreement between Spain and Portugal that created an imaginary north-south line dividing their territory in the Americas | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| the transfer of plants, animals, and disease between the Americas and Europe, Asia,and African beginning with the voyages of Columbus | Colombian Exchange |
| an economic system used from about the 1500s to the 1700s that held that a nation's power was directly related to its wealth. | mercantilism |
| the difference in valor between whats a nation imports and exports over a period of time | balance of trade |
| grants of money. | subsidies |
| economic system in which most businesses are privately owned | capitalism |
| businesses formed by droups of people who jointly make an investment and and share in the profits and losses | joint-stock companies |
| large farms that usually specialized in the growing of one type of crops for a profit | plantations |
| trading network lasting from the 1600s the the 1800s that carried goods and enslaved people. | triangular trade |
| the named for voyages that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to north America and west Indies | Middle Passage |
| slaves. | Olaudah Equiano |
| political organization in south Africa | African Diaspora |
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