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chap 16 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a sailing vessel that uses a square and triangular sails to help it sail against the wind | caravel |
| prince of Portugal and patron of exploration; he made no voyages himself but spent his life directing voyages of discovery along the African coast | Henry the Navigator |
| Portuguese navigator; in 1497-1499, he became the first European to sail around Africa and reach India by sea | Vasco De Gama |
| Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, who reached the Americas in 1492 while searching for a western sea route from Europe to Asia | Christopher Columbus |
| Portuguese navigator; his ships was the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he died on the journey | Ferdinand Magellan |
| to proceed completely around | circumnavigate |
| English admiral; he rounded the tip of South America and explored the west coast. he ended up heading west to return to England, thus becoming the second man to circumnavigate the globe | Sir Francis Drake |
| English navigator; he sailed for the Dutch East India Company and discovered the Hudson river in present-day New York | Henry Hudson |
| Spanish colonial system in which a colonist was given a certain amount of land and a number of Native Americans to work the land in exchange for teaching the Native Americans Christianity | encomienda |
| Spanish conquistador; from 1519 to 1521, he defeated the Aztec empire, conquering Mexico for Spain | Hernan Cortes |
| a Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain | conquistador |
| Aztec ruler from 1502 to 1520; he was emperor of the Aztecs when Cortes and was taken prisoner and killed during the battle with Spanish army | Moctezuma ll |
| Spanish conquistador, conqueror of Peru; founder of Lima, Peru. From 1530 to 1533, he conquered the Inca empire | Fransisco Pizarro |
| Last Inca king; he was taken prisoner by Pizarro and his army after refusing Christianity and surrender his empire to Spanish conquistadors. He was killed by the Spanish and his empire was taken over | Atahualpa |
| officials who ruled Spain's American empire | viceroys |
| Spanish missionary and historian; he sought to protect Native Americans from Spanish mistreatment by replacing them as laborers with imported African slaves | Bartolome De Las Casas |
| the agreement between Spain and Portugal that created an imaginary north-south line dividing their territory in the Americas | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa beginning with the voyages of Columbus | Colombian Exchange |
| an economic system used about the 1500s to the 1700s that held that nation's powers was directly related to its wealth | mercantilism |
| the difference in value between what a nations imports and exports over a period of time | balance of trade |
| grants of money | subsidies |
| economic system in which most businesses are privately owned | capitalism |
| buisnesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses | joint-stock companies |
| large farms that usually specialized in the growing of one type of crop for a profit | plantations |
| trading network lasting from the 1600s to the 1800s that carried goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and Africa | triangular trade |
| the name for voyages that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies | Middle Passage |
| African American abolitionist; he was an enslaved African who was eventually freed, became leader of the abolitionist movement, and wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano | Olaudah Equiano |
| the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe due to the slave trade | African Diaspora |