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Age of Exploration
Age of Exploration Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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A period beginning in the early 1400s and ending in the late 1700s where European explorers and merchants discovered areas of the world yet unseen by Western Europe. | Age of Exploration |
3 motivations of Exploration | God, Gold, Glory |
used stars as fixed points to show direction | Astrolabe |
science of drawing maps | Cartography |
big, strong ships that could travel in shallow water | Caravel |
triangle-shaped sails from Arabs Muslims that allowed explorers to sail against the wind | Lateen Sails |
Portuguese prince who created a navigation school to train sailors | Prince Henry the Navigator |
Became the first European to make it to India by sailing around Africa | Vasco Da Gama |
Italian Explorer who mistakenly thought that he had discovered another route to Asia but had discovered the Americas | Christopher Columbus |
Country who Columbus sailed for | Spain |
Man who had First crew to circumnavigate the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
A Spanish soldier and Explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain | Conquistador |
Conquered the Aztecs | Hernando Cortes |
Conquered the Inca | Francisco Pizarro |
Agreement between Spain and Portugal that Divided territory in the Americas along North and South | Treaty of Tordesilla |
Primary goods traded by the French | Fur and fish |
Type of freedom desired by the Pilgrims and Puritans | Religious Freedom |
First permanent English settlement in the New World | Jamestown |
Land that was disputed in the French and Indian War | Ohio River Valley |
Country that colonized Manhattan and founded the Dutch East India Company | Netherlands |
the introduction of new products between Indians & Europeans | The Columbian Exchange |
Economic system used from 1500s to 1700s that stated Nation’s power is directly related to its wealth | Mercantilism |
Group of investors who create a colony and share in profits and losses | Joint Stock Company |
an economic system where businesses are privately owned and the goal of the individual is to make a profit | Capitalism |
Trade network (1600s to 1800s) that carried goods and enslaved people between Europe, Africa, and the Americas | Triangular Trade |
The transportation of African slaves from the West Coast of Africa to the New World | Middle Passage |