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Age of Exploration;
definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Conquistadors | One of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. |
| Jamestown | A village in Virginia. The first permanent English settlement in North America in 1607; restored in 1957. |
| Atlantic slave trade | The Atlantic slave trade, also known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade, was the trading of African people to the colonies of the New World that occurred around the Atlantic Ocean |
| Triangular trade | A pattern of colonial commerce in which slaves were bought on the African Gold Coast with New England rum and then traded in the West Indies for sugar or molasses. |
| Columbian Exchange | The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animals, foods, human populations, communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres that occurred after Christopher Columbus landed in the Americas. |
| Commercial Revolution | The Commercial Revolution was a period of European economic expansion, colonialism, and mercantilism which lasted from approximately the sixteenth century until the early eighteenth century. |
| Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver. Also by selling more goods than they bought. |
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