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Age of Exporation
Unit 3, WH2
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Magellan | Portuguese explorer who first circumnavigated the globe (he died on the way back) |
| da Gama | established trade route from Portugal to India going around Africa |
| Cortes | conquered the Aztecs |
| Pizarro | conquered the Incas |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | established a school for navigational arts |
| Sir Francis Drake | first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe |
| Jacques Cartier | explorer who claimed part of Canada for France. |
| mestizo | Native American + European |
| mulatto | European + African |
| creole | Spanish + Native South Americans |
| Triangular Trade | trade between Europe, Africa, and America |
| Columbian Exchange | goods and services traded between Old World and New World |
| precious metals | copper, gold, silver = valuable, natural mineral resources |
| International trade | trade between countries around the world |
| smallpox | a contagious virus that Europeans brought to the New World, killing thousands of Native Americans |
| slavery | keeping people as servants or property |
| plantation system | granting land to settlers in the New World to grow cash crops using slave labor |
| circumnavigate | to sail around the world |
| first Americans | the indigenous people of the New World - the Native Americans |
| cash crop | a crop raised for a profit, eg. cotton, tobacco, rice CA$H |
| Parent/Mother country | the home government from which settlers leave to establish a colony |
| legacy | something that came from an ancestor or from the mother country. |
| emigration | when you leave your country to live elsewhere |
| dictatorial | political leadership with absolute power to make laws and command the military |
| colonization | establishing a new settlement by a group of people who maintain ties and loyalty to their home government. |
| migration | people moving from one climate or region to another |
| indigenous people | people who are native to a particular region. example: Inuits people - Alaska |
| navigational arts | the study of and technology needed to steer a ship |
| natural resources | raw materials available in any given location, such as wood, clay, water, coal, etc., |
| innovation | a new idea, method or device. *Gutenberg's printing press is an example. |
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