Question | Answer |
Economy | Foundation of wealth |
Political/Politics | Thoughts,behaviors,and or reltions based on power |
Generaliztion | a simple statment or idea made from infering |
Culture | way of life |
-ism | a strong belifs |
Capitlaize | to take advantage of a situation using what an individual has/owns |
Mercantile | goverment owned trade |
Conquistador | Spanish, soldier who conquered early Native American villages |
Caravel | A small, fast and hevalily armed portuguesse ship |
Lateen | triangular shaped sail used to navigate directly into the wind |
Columbian Extange | the sharing of goods and ideas with all continents;all started with Columbus's trip to the america's |
Imperialism | a strong belif that stronger nations should control weaker nations to build empires |
Raw Materials | Reacources used to make finished products |
Cash Crops | crops grown to be sold rather than be use by the farmer. (ex. surgar cane/ rice) |
Colony | a weak land controlled by goverment |
Settler Colony | a distant land made by of one or more lived in in farms and is controlled by goverment |
Plantation Colony | large land used to grow cash crops |
Trading Post Colony | largly unsettled area of land along which goods of all kind are made/ and or extanged |
Mother Country | a strong nation that controlls a weaker one |
Capital | money or other items of value used to increase wealth |
Capititalism | (free market economy)a strong belif in private ownership and control of the methods and materials of trade and production |
Mercantalism | (goverment economy) a strong belif in goverment ownership and control of the methods and materials of trade and production |
Isolationism | a strong belif that one country should be seperate form others |
Triangular Trade Route | path of extange between Europe, Africa, and the Americas |
Middle Passage | slave trade route from Africa to the Americas |