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Chapter 16
Key terms and people
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Caravel | A light fast sailing ship |
| Henry the Navigator | A patron and supporter of those who wished to explore. |
| Vasco da Gama | set out for india in 1497 |
| Christopher Columbus | Believed that he could sail west around the world from Spain to China but then founded America |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Decided to sail west around the world |
| Circumnavigate | TO sail COMPLETELY around the world. |
| Sir Francis Drake | The second man to circumnavigate the globe |
| Henry Hudson | a man the queen sent to find a shorter route to Asia. |
| Encomienda | a system in which a colonist is given a certain amount of land and a number of native americans to work the land for him. |
| Hernan Cortes | Led an expeto Mexico that ended with the conquest of the Aztec Empire |
| Conquistador | Or conqueror |
| Moctezuma II | Aztec Emperor |
| Francisco Pizarro | Led an expidition to Peru |
| Atahualpa | Had only just taken control of the empire when the spanish arrived. |
| Viceroys | OFficials of the king. |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | The most vocal reformers of the treatment of Native americans. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Drew an imaginary line through the Atlantic (the equator) |
| Columbian Exchange | The global Transfer |
| Mercantilism | The basic principle of mercantilism was that a nations strength depeneded on its wealth. |
| Balance of trade | WIth a favorable balance of trade, a country received more gold and silver from other nations than it paid to them. |
| Subsidies | grants of money |
| Capatalism | Most economic activity is carried on by private individuals or organizations in order to seek a profit. |
| Joint-stock companies | investors buy shares of stock in a company. |
| Plantations | Estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on a large scale. |
| Triangular trade | Captured Africans were marched to slave ships where they became part of a network (the triangular trade) |
| Middle passage | Brought Africans to the americas to be sold as slaves |
| Olaudah Equiano | Later wrote about the horrific conditions of the middle passage |
| African Diaspora | A result of the slave trade whene the people of africa could descent and spread throughout the Americas and Eastern Europe. |
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