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chapter 16
| 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 navigator |
| another Portuguese explorer | vasco DA 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 |
| a daring adventurer that decided to sail west around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
| to proceed completely around | circumnavigate |
| the english queen sent him to round the trip of south America and explore its west coast | sir Francis drake |
| dutch born sailor, who discovered the Hudson river | Henry Hudson |
| a 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 con conquistador; from 1519 to 1521, he defeated the Aztecs empire | hernan Cortes |
| a Spanish solider and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land in Spain | conquistador |
| Aztec ruler from 1502 to 1520 | Montezuma 11 |
| a conquistador | Francisco Pizarro |
| last Inca king; | Atahualpa |
| officials who ruled Spain's American empire | viceroys |
| a priest | bartolome DE las casas |
| the argument between Spain and Portuguese | treaty of tordesilas |
| 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 from about the 1500s to the 1700s the held that a nations 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 and investment and share in the profits and losses | joint-stock companies |
| large farms t usually specialized in the growing of in type of crop for a profit | plantations |
| the name for voyages that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean to north America and the west indies | middle passage |
| olaudah equiano | |
| african diaspora | |
| triangular trade |
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