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chapter 16 key terms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| caravel | a light fast sailing ship. |
| Henry the navigator | these voyages were begun largely due to the efforts of one man,prince Henry,the son of king john 1 of portugal. |
| vasco da gama | excited by dias's success another portuguese.set out for india in 1497. |
| Christopher columbus | in 1492 the spanish rulers,king ferdinand and queen isabella,agreed to pay for voyage by ltalin |
| ferdind magellan | he decided to sail west around the world.born in Portugal but sailing for spain,magellan set out in 1519 wuth 5 ship and about 250 men. |
| circumnavigate | sail completely around the world |
| sir Francis drake | the English queen sent him to a round the tip of south America and explore its west coast |
| Henry Hudson | he was a duth-born,in 1607 hudson set out to the north hoping to find a northeast passage around europe. |
| encomienda | system to the caribbean |
| hernan cortes | who led an expedition to mexico that ended with conquest of the aztec empire. |
| conquistador | conqueror,a term applied to spanish military leader who fought against the native people of the American |
| Montezuma 11 | at the time Spanish arrival in Mexico the Aztecs emperor |
| Francisco Pizarro | The conquest of peru about 10 years after the conquestof the aztecs. |
| Atahualp | had only just taken control of the empire when the Spanish arrived |
| viceroys | to govern his American holding,the spanish king |
| bartolome de las casas | the most vocal of these reformers was a priest |
| treaty of tordesillas | signed in 1494,grew an imaginary line through the Atlantic |
| Columbian exchange | Historians call this global transfer |
| mercantilism | during the 1500s,Europeans developed a new type of econmic |
| balance of trade | it could extract gold and silver from mines at home or in its colonies,or its sell more goods than it cought from foreign countries. |
| subsideies | grants of money to help business people start new industries |
| capitalism | expanded |
| joint-stock companies | to fund ever-larger businesses |
| plantations | estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on a large scale. |
| triangular trade | captured Africans were marched to slave ship where they became apart of a network |
| middle passage | brought africans to the americans to be sold as slaves. |
| Olaudah Equiano | later wrote about these horrific conditions |
| african diaspora | this dispersal |
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