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Chapter16 definition
Key Terms And People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A sailing vessel that uses 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 navigatior |
| Portuguesse navigatior in the 1497- 1499. He became the first European to sail around Africa and reach India by sea. | Vasco da Gama |
| Italian explorer, sailing for Spain, who reached the Americans in 1492 while searching for a western sea route from Europe to Asia. | Christopher Columbous |
| Portugesse navigatior, his ships were the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he died on the journey. | Fredinand Mangellan |
| 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.He was the second man to circumnavigate the globe. | Sir Francis Drake |
| English navigatior, 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 1642 he led Parliament's forces in deposing King Charles I, he became ruler of England in 1653 | 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 the emperor of the Aztecs when Cortes and his army conquered the empire. Was take as a prisioner and killed during battle with the Spanish army. | Moctezuma II |
| Spanish conquistador, conqueror of Peru, founder of Lima Peru. From 1530 to 1533, he conquered the Inca Empire. | Francisco Pizarro |
| Last Inca king. He was taken prisoner by Pizarro and his army after refusing to accept Christianity and surrender his empire to Spanish conquistador. | Atahualpa |
| Officals 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 voyage of Columbus | Columbian Exchange |
| An economic system used from about the 1500's to the 1700's that held that a nation's power was directly related to its wealth | mercantilism |
| The difference in value between what a nation 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 |
| Businesses 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 type of crop for a profit | plantations |
| Trading network lasting from the 1600's to the 1800's 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 a leader of the abolitionist movement and wrote the " 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 |