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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| caravel | a light fast sailing ship. |
| Henry the Navigator | patron and supporter of those who wished to explore. |
| Vasco da Gama | set out to india in 1497 |
| Christopher Columbus | believed he could sail west to china from spain found the carribean islands. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | decided to sail west around the world |
| circumnavigate | sail completely around the world |
| Sir Francis Drake | sent to round the tip of south america and explore its west coast |
| Henry Hudson | sent to find a shorter route to asia |
| encomienda | a system introduced to the carriebean |
| Hernan Cortes | a conquistador |
| conquistador | conqueror |
| Moctezuma II | aztec emperor |
| Francisco Pizarro | led expedition to peru |
| Atahualpa | just taken control of the inca empire when spanish arrive |
| viceroys | ruled large areas in the kings name |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | most vocal of the reformers |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | drew imaginary land in teh atlantic |
| Columbian Exchange | global transfer |
| mxercantilism | economic policy |
| Balance of trade | selling more goods than bought |
| subsides | grants of money |
| capitalism | economic system |
| joint-stock companies | funds to ever larger buisnesses |
| plantations | estates where cash crops were grown |
| triangular trade | network of african american slave trade |
| middle passage | brought africans to the americas |
| olaudah Equiano | an african american |
| African diaspora | dispersal of africans through out america. |