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Age of Exploration
Question | Answer |
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Middle Passage | The voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves-so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade. |
Columbian Exchange | The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas. |
Mercantilism | 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. |
conquistador | The Spanish soldiers,explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century. |
Atlantic Slave Trade | The buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas. |
Commercial Revolution | The expansion of trade and business that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. |
Triangular Trade | The transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America. |