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world history vocab2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| caravel | a light,fast sailing ship |
| Henry the navigator | a patron and supporter of those who wished to explore |
| vasco da Gama | Portuguese navigator, first to sail around Africa and reach India by sea |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer sailing for Spain but reach the Americas |
| Ferdinand Megellan | Portuguese navigator, his ships were the first to sail around the globe but he died on the journey |
| Circumnavigate | sail completely around the world |
| Sir Francis Drake | English admiral, he rounded the tip of south America and explored the west coast |
| Henry Hudson | English navigator, he sailed for the Dutch east India Company and discovered the Hudson river in present day New York |
| econmienda | a colonist was given a certain amount of land and a number of native Americans to work their land |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish trader, he defeated the Aztec Empire. conquering Mexico for Spain |
| conquistador | a conqueror, a term applied to Spanish military leaders who fought against the native people of the Americas |
| Franciso Pizarro | Spanish conquistador, founder of Lima Peru. Conquered the Inca Empire |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | drew a imaginary line through the north south agreement |
| Franciso Pizarro | Spanish conquistador, founder of Lima Peru. Conquered the Inca Empire |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | drew a imaginary line through the north south agreement between Spain and portuagal |
| Columbian Exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, disease between the Americans and Europe Asia and Africa |
| Merchantilism | Europeans develop a new type of economic policy |
| Balance of trade | the difference in value between what a nation imports and exports over a period of time |
| Subsidies | grants of money to help business people start new industries |
| capitalism | economic system in which most business are _______________ owned |
| joint-Stock companies | business formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses |
| plantations | where slaves work________________________________________________________________________________________________________ |
| triangular trade | trading network carrying goods and slaves |
| middle passage | name for voyages that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean to North America |
| Olaudah Equiano | African American Abolitionist wrote story about his journey |
| African Diaspora | the dispersal of people of African decry throughout the Americans and western Europe due to the slave trade |
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