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8th grade Wilson midterm U.S. History Chap. 2 "European Exploration of America"

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MIDDLE PASSAGE   middle leg of the triangular trade route that brought capruted Africans to the Americas to serve as slaves  
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MERCANTILISM   economic system that increased money in a country's treasury by creating a favorable balance of trade  
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ALL WATER ROUTE TO ASIA   by finding an all water route to asia it meant that the portuguese could now trade with Asia without having to deal with muslim or italian traders.  
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NORTHWEST PASSAGE   connects atlantic and pacific ocean for a shorter route to Asia, not practical because usually frozen.  
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SPANISH ARMADA   large fleet of ships sent to invade England and restore Catholicism  
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EXPLORING THE SOUTHWEST   Vazquez de Coronado explored southwest in hopes of finding the city of gold  
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CREOLES   2nd level of society in the Americas- people of spanish descent born in the colonies  
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FALL OF AZTEC EMPIRE   Aztec empire-cortes tries to gain controll by capruting emporor Montezuma II but fails then comes back with smallpox which wipes out the empire  
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FALL OF INCA EMPIRE   Inca empire- spanish here of incan riches and come to get them, inca go to meet spanish but spanish capture leader atahualpa, he gives the spanish gold to be set free but they kill him any way the empire collases and Pizzario claims the lands for spain  
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COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE   transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Western and Eastern hemispheres  
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DEPENDENCE OF AFRICAN SLAVES   america came to depend on slave labor, kings capture africans and traded them for european goods  
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OLAUDAH EQUIANO   sold into slavery at 11, later after buying slavery wrote about the beginnings of the middle passage  
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SLAVE TRADE (YEARS)   began 1600s ended in late 1800s  
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VICEROYALTIES   Spanish goverment in the colonies  
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