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Unit #3 - Exploratio
WH2 - Exploration
Term | Definition |
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Natural Resources | Raw materials available in given location or region |
Navigational Arts | The study of and technology needed to steer a ship |
Indigenous Peoples | Group native to a particular region |
Migration | Movement of people from one climate or region to another |
Colonization | The establishing of a new settlement by a group of people who maintain ties to their home government |
Dictatorial | Political leadership with absolute power to make laws & command the military |
Cash Crop | A crop that is raised for profit rather than use by the producer |
Columbian Exchange | Exchange of goods & services between the Old & New World during the Age of Discovery |
First Americans | The indigenous people of the New World, Native Americans |
Plantation System | The granting of lands in the New World to settlers who produced cash crops using slave labor |
Slavery | System in which people are held in servitude or as property |
Smallpox | Contagious, viral disease brought to the New World by Europeans & resulting in the death of a large number of Native Americans |
Precious Metal | Valuable, natural resources such as gold, silver, copper, etc. |
Triangular Trade | Pattern of trade between the Americas, Africa & Europe |
Vasco da Gama | Portuguese sailor that established a trade route from Portugal, around Africa & on to India |
Ferdinand Magellan | Explorer credited with the first circumnavigation of the globe |
Hernando Cortes | Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs |
Prince Henry the Navigator | Portuguese royal that established a school to study the navigational arts |
Sir Francis Drake | First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe |
Jacques Cartier | French Explorer that claimed most of north east Canada for France |
Mestizo | Someone of mixed European & Native American Ancestry |
Mulatto | Someone of mixed African & European Ancestry |
Creole | European born in the Spanish controlled Americas |
Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conqueror of the Incas |