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Exploration ch. 15,
Exploration and Encounters metz
Question | Answer |
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cartographers | Map makers |
astrolabe | Instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars. |
caravel | Combination of triangular and square sails |
circumnavigate | Travel all the way around the Earth. Magellan's crew was the first to do this in 1522. |
outpost | Distant military station in another country |
Dutch East India Company | A group of spice traders from the Netherlands |
Joint Stock Company | Private trading organization in which shares are sold to investors to finance business ventures |
conquistador | Name for the Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500's & 1600's |
immunity | Natural protection from disease |
Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs in 1519 |
Treaty of Tordesillas | The Pope made a line to separate the land in the Americas between Spain and Portugal |
Triangular Trade | Trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas in the 1500's |
Atlantic Slave Trade | The most productive leg on Trans-Atlantic trade |
Squash, Tomatoes, Cocoa Beans, Turkeys, Beans, Tobacco | Went from the Americas to Europe, Asia, and the Pacific |
Bananas, Coffee, Grains, Bees, Livestock (Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Horses), Diseases (Smallpox, Influenza, Measles). | Went from Europe, Asia, Africa to the Americas |
Mercantilism | Policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold or silver |
Encomienda | right the Spanish government granted to its American colonists to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans |
Middle Passage | The 2nd leg of Triangular Trade that carried slaves to the Americas in horrible conditions |