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chapter 16 terms

definitions

QuestionAnswer
caravel a light on a ship
Henry the navigator Prince Henry
Christopher Columbus believed that he could sail around the world and reach china
circumnavigate sail completely around the world
Sir Francis Drake sent to round the tip of south America and explore its west coast
Vasco da Gama excited about somebody elses success he set out to find India
Ferdinand Magellan sailed west around the world
Henry Hudson dutch sailor
encomienbda colonist was given a certain amount of land and a number of Native Americans
Conquistador Spanish military who fought against native people of America
Hernan Cortes led an expedition to Mexico that ended with the conquest of Aztec Empire
Atahualpa a new ruler who had just taken over Spanish empire
Viceroys people chosen to rule large parts of land under the kings name
Bartolome de Las Casas Most vocal reformer was this priest
Treaty of Tordesillas an imaginary line thru Atlantic
Columbian Exchange Trades between America, Europe, Africa and Asia
Mercantilism nations greatest strength is wealth
Balance of trade favor in trade
subslides grants of money
capitalism economic activity is carried on
joint-stock companies were investors bought shares of stock in the company
plantations were people grown crops
triangular trade where European goods are exchanged goods for slaves
Moctezuma 11 Aztec Emperor
Middle passage where African Americans where brought to America to be sold
Olaudah Equiano African who wrote about the horrible middle passage
African diaspora where Africans where spread through out America and Western Europe
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