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Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| caravel | a light , fast sailing hsuip with rudder adn lateen sails |
| henery the navifgatior | son o fking john 1 of portugak and supporter of the ecxploreers |
| vasco de gama | porteguese explorere who traveled the in 1497 |
| christiphoer columbus | italian sailer who travelked west to reach china but dricoverd isnalds |
| ferdinand magellan | first exploerer to atemmpt to circumnavigae the globe, he was killed, journery |
| circumnavigate | trvel completely around the world |
| sir frrancis duke | first to cimrcurm naviagte the world |
| henery hudson | dutch sailor who looked unsuccefully adn teh river is named ater him |
| ecomienda | spanish system in which a colonist recieved land and native american workers who to teach chirtsianity |
| hernan cortes | spansih explorer and conquere o fthe myan empireq |
| conquistdor | spnaish term for conquerer name for spanish military leaders who fought against the native peoiple o the americas |
| mocetezuma 11 | aztec emporer at the time of the cortes conquest of mexico |
| francisco pizarro | conqueror of inca empier in peru for the spanish |
| atahualapa | ruler of the inca empire ni peru for the dpanish |
| viceroys | officlas who led in the king names |
| bartolome de las casas | spanish preist who critizcied treatment of the native americans sggesting the slaves from afrcia be used as labororers |
| treat of tordesillas | treaty signed in 1493 dividing the americans between spain and portugal along an imaginiary line |
| columbian exchange | teh exchange of plants, animals, and diseases due to contact between poeple of europe and meicans |
| mercantilism | teh eurpoean ecominmic policy th at called for nations to gain wealth in order to build a storn militrary and expland influence |
| balance of trade | the amount of good sold by aoutnry against those purched from others |
| subsides | grants of money given by goverments for purposes such as helping people |
| capitalism | exconomic sytem in whihc private individuals rather than goverment perfoom most of economic activuty |
| joint stock ocmpany | a company in which invertors buy shares o stock abnd reciebnce portion of the porift |
| plantaion | estates in teh americas where chash crops were gorwn on a loagr scale |
| triangularr trade | trading network in the brought good euproe africa trade for slaves brought goods back |
| middle passage | name for the second leg of teh triangle bringin captive africans to the americas |
| oladuah equiono | african who wrtoe abotu the hrorific condiotirons on voyageas |
| african disporisa | the spread of poeple of african descent throughtet the american spreading african culitre throughout the wetern world |