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7-1.1--7-1.3 Review
Quick Overview of 7-1.1--7-1.3 (does NOT include all terms)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Sugar | Staple crop grown by the British, French, and Spanish in the Caribbean, and the Portuguese in Brazil; it made a huge amount of money for colonial powers |
| Latitude | lines on a map which goes east-west and which tell distance north or south of the equator |
| Feudalism | under this system, which was in place in Europe before the 1600s, nobles with self-sufficient manors shaped the economy and controlled resources |
| Spain | large European nation on the Iberian peninsula; explored and colonized western North America, Central America, western South America, and the Caribbean |
| Portugual | small European nation on the Iberian peninsula; explored and colonized Brazil, parts of southern Africa, and India |
| England | Northwest European island nation, explored and colonized northern North America and its Eastern seaboard |
| The Netherlands | small Northwest European nation, explored and colonized the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) and New Netherlands (what later became New York state) |
| France | large Northwest European nation, explored and colonized what became central Canada and the American Midwest |
| Treaty of Tordesilla | 1494 agreement, backed by the Catholic Pope Alexander VI, which gave Africa to Portugal to explore and colonize, and gave most of the Americas to Spain |
| Christopher Columbus | discovered the Americas for Spain in 1492 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | led an expedition which was the first to circumnavigate (go all the way around) the Earth |
| Bartolomeu Dias | discovered India for Portugal |
| John Cabot | discovered parts of North America for England |
| Hernan Cortes | discovered Mexico (MesoAmerica) for Spain |
| Francisco Pizzaro | discovered South America for Spain |
| Vasco de Gama | discovered India for Portugal |
| Capitalism | a type of economy in which the means of production (land, factories, and natural resources) are privately owned and operated for profit in a competitive market |
| Mercantilism | The theory that a nation became richer and more powerful by regulating trade so that it had a favorable balance of trade (having more valuable exports than imports) so it could build up its supplies of bullion (gold and silver) |
| Caravel | a popular ship used for exploring in the 15th and early 16th centuries, especially by the Portuguese; it was easy to maneuver, could sail up rivers, and had triangular sails so it could sail into the wind |
| Astrolabe | an instrument used by sailors to measure the height of a star, the moon, or the sun above the horizon so they could determine latitude |
| Compass | a magnetic north seeking instrument which allows ships to steer a selected course and fix a ship’s position on a chart |
| Longitude | lines on a map which go north-south and are used to tell distance east-west of the prime meridian |
| Mercator Projection | A mathematical method of showing a map of the spherical (round) Earth on a flat surface |
| Tobacco | a staple crop grown primarily in colonial Virginia and Maryland |
| Furs | trapped by French, Dutch (from the Netherlands), and Russians as part of their trading post empires in North America |
| Columbian Exchange | the movement of goods, people, ideas, and diseases back and forth across the Atlantic Ocean |
| Triangular Trade | the trade involving the shipment of manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, the shipment of slaves from Africa to the Americas, and the shipment of staple goods or crops and rum from the Americas to Europe. |
| Fish and Furs | What France's trading post empire in North America was based on |
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