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Unit 8 - 9th
Unit 8: Age of Exploration (required)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Age of Exploration (cause) | began by Spain and Portugal when people explored the oceans looking for a shorter trade route for India and China's spices |
| Trans-Atlantic Slave trade | trade route that brought slaves from Africa to North and South America |
| Christopher Columbus | Spanish explorer who discovered the Americas in 1492 AD |
| Columbian Exchange | trade of goods, ideas, and diseases began when Europeans came in contact with people of the Americas |
| conquistador | Spanish conquerer, ex: Cortes, Pizarro |
| The Encounter (cause, results) | began when Columbus founded the Americas, it led to increased cultural diffusion and the death of natives of the Americas due to disease |
| export | selling goods to another country |
| Ferdinand Magellan | first person to circumnavigate the Earth |
| Henry the Navigator | built schools for sailors in Portugal |
| mercantilism | economic policy used by European kings that stressed "mother countries" getting gold and silver and creating colonies for raw materials |
| natural resources | materials found in nature for manufacturing, ex: wood, coal, oil |
| plantation | large farm |
| Triangular Trade Route | trade route between Africa (gives slaves), Americas (gives raw materials), and Europe (gives manufactured goods) |
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