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Chavez WH 19 Vocab
Ch 19&20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who rounded the tip of Africa |
| Prince Henry | Portuguese supporter of exploration |
| Vasco da Gama | Explorer who gave Portugal a direct sea route to India |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Treaty between Spain and Portugal dividing newly discovered lands between them |
| Dutch East India Company | Dutch company that established and directed trade throughout Asia |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who landed in the Americas |
| Colony | Land controlled by another nation |
| Hernando Cortes | Conquistador who defeated the Aztec |
| Conquistador | Spanish explorers in the Americas |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquistador who defeated the Inca |
| Atahualpa | Last incan emperor |
| Mestizo | Person with mixed Spanish and Native American blood |
| encomienda | System of mining and farming using natives as a slave labor |
| New France | Area of the Americas explored and claimed by France |
| Jamestown | First permanent settlement in America |
| Pilgrims | Group of English people who founded a colony in Plymouth |
| New Netherland | Dutch colony begun in modern New York City |
| Puritans | People who did not agree with practices of the Church of England |
| French and Indian War | War between Britain and France over land in North America |
| Metacom | Native American leader who led an attack on the villages of Massachusetts; also called King Philip |
| Atlantic slave trade | Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas |
| Triangular trade | Europeans trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe involving slaves and other goods |
| Middle passage | Voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and the Americas |
| Columbian Exchange | Global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas |
| Capitalism | Economic system based on private ownership and the investment of wealth for a common purpose |
| Joint-stock company | Company in which people pooled their wealth for a common purpose |
| Mercantilism | Economic policy of increasing wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and selling more goods than are bought |
| Favorable balance of trade | Condition resulting from selling more goods than are bought |
| Aztec Empire | Great empire in the Valley of Mexico that had strong religious beliefs and a powerful army |
| Descendants | People who are offspring or ancestors of one family group |
| Erupted | Broke out |
| Imported | Brought into one country from another |
| Inca Empire | Largest empire ever in the Americas, located in the Andes |
| Plantations | Large farms usually devoted to a single crop |
| Possession | Land owned by another country |
| Private ownership | Ownership by individuals instead of by groups or governments |
| rebellions | Uprisings against the current government |
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