Ch 6: Exploration Word Scramble
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| Question | Answer |
| Conquistador | Spanish conquerors of the Americas |
| Colony | A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control |
| Mercantilism | A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 12th century. Held that propserity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver |
| Balance of Trade | Difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time. |
| Plantation | A large agricultural estate |
| Triangular Trade | Pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia and American continents. |
| Middle Passage | Journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route. |
| Mainland States | Part of a continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands. |
| Bureaucracy | Administrative organization that relies on non-elected officials and regular procedures. |
| What were explorers seeking thorugh exploration? | New trade routes |
| Motives for exploration | Gold, Glory, and God |
| Henry the Navigator | Brought together exports to study navigation and sponsored voyages in the Atlantic |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer whose voyage was sponsored by the Spanish. He believed he could find a new trade route to Asia and landed in the Americas, believing he had reached India. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | His crew was the first to sail around the world. |
| Strait of Magellan | Narrow passageway at the tip of South America discovered by Magelland and his crew. |
| Which country led the way in exploration | Portugal |
| Part of the Triangular trade that describes the transportation from Africa to America | Middle Passage |
| Bartholomeu Dias | Portuguese who along with his crew sailed down the coast of Africa and discovered the tip called the Cape of Good Hope. |
| Mercantilism | Economic system based on belief that: -a nations power is based on its wealth -creating a balance of trade (exporting more than you import) |
| Hernando Cortez and Francisco Pizarro | Conquistadors who led invasions against the Aztecs and Incas. |
| Portuguese who sailed from Portugal to India | Vasco Da Gama |
| Columbian Exchange | the extensive exchange of plants and animals between the Old and New Worlds. |
| Balance of Trade | Mercantilist principle which is based on exports being greater than imports. |
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