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Age of Exploration
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Voyages | trips |
| Merchants | sellers |
| Trade | buying and selling goods |
| Ports | places along the coast where ships can dock |
| Routes | ways to get places |
| Christopher Columbus | He discovered the ‘New World’ by crossing the Atlantic. He thought he reached Asia |
| Prince Henry | Portuguese explorer who ran a school of navigation and sponsored expeditions to West Africa |
| Hernan Cortes | He conquered Mexico (Aztec) |
| Francisco Pizarro | He conquered Peru (Inca) |
| Ferdinand Magellan | His fleet circumnavigated the globe in 1522. |
| Circumnavigate | The ability to sail a ship completely around the globe |
| Conquistadors | Spanish explorers and soldiers who conquered territory outside of Spain |
| Cartographer | mapmaker |
| Astrolabe | used to determine the latitude of a ship |
| Caravel | a small, narrow ship with two or three masts and triangular sails. It moves faster, easier to steer into the wind |
| magnetic compass | An instrument used for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating needle that indicates north |
| The Columbian Exchange | The exchange of people, other living things and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres |
| New World to Old World Products | potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts, tobacco, vanilla and chocolate (cocoa), and turkeys |
| Old World to New World Products | coffee, wheat, rice, cows, horses, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens,smallpox, measles, influenza, European colonists and African slaves (12 million slaves) |
| Sponsored | paid for the voyage |
| Bartholomeu Dias | he sailed around the tip of Africa and reached the Indian Ocean |
| Vasco da Gama | He found a sea route to India. |
| Claimed | declared |
| Expedition | a trip or journey with a purpose |
| Accurate | exact |
| Cultural exchange | the blending of different ideas, traditions and religions |
| Acquire | to get |
| scurvy | a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C, characterized by swollen bleeding gums |
| Middle Passage | Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. |
| Slave Trade | The procuring, transporting, and selling of human beings as slaves in Africa |
| cash crops | crops grown for profit, like sugar, tobacco and cotton |
| colonization | The process of establishing settlements in other parts of the world and controlling its people and resources |
| resources | anything provided by nature that is useful to humans |
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