Chapter 16 BB Word Scramble
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Question | Answer |
A light, fast sailing ship | Caravel |
Prince Henry, the son of King John 1 of Portugal | Henry the Navigator |
Set out for India in 1947 | Vasco da Gama |
Believed he could sail west around the world from Spain to reach China | Christopher Columbus |
Decided to sail west around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
Sail completely around the world | Circumnavigate |
The English queen sent him to round the tip of South America and explore its west coast | Sir Francis Drake |
Set out to the north, hoping to find a north passage around Europe | Henry Hudson |
System to the Caribbean | Encomienda |
Led the expedition to Mexico that ended with the conquest of the Aztec Empire | Hernan Cortes |
Conqueror | Conquistador |
At the time of the Spanish arrival in Mexico, the Aztec emperor was ___ | Moctezuma 2 |
Led an expedition to Peru | Franciso Pizarro |
Had only just taken control of the empire when the spanish arrived | Atahualpa |
Each of whom ruled a large area in the king's name | Viceroys |
The most vocal of these reformers was a priest named ___ | Bartolome de Las Casas |
Drew an imaginary line through the Atlantic | Treaty of Tordesillas |
What historians called the global transfer | Colombian Exchange |
Europeans developed a new type of economic policy | Mercantilism |
A country would receive more gold and silver from other nations than it paid them | Balance of trade |
Grants of money, to help business people start new industries | Subsidies |
The economic system expanded | Capitalism |
Investors began to pool their money into ___ to found ever-larger businesses | Joint-stock companies |
Estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on a large scale | Plantations |
Captured Africans were marched to slave ships where they became part of a network | Triangular trade |
Second leg, brought Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves | Middle passage |
One African, later wrote about these horrific conditions | Olaudah Equiano |
As a result of slave trade, people of African descent spread throughout the Americas and Western Europe | African Diaspora |
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