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History Vocab - Exam
History Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Americans gave Europe goods like sugar, tabacco, and cotton. Europe gave Africa goods. Africa gives American slaves | Triangle of Trade |
| The exchange of foods, crops, and disease across Atlantic | Columbian Exchange |
| Spainards living in Spain that were born there | Peninsulares |
| Forced labor caused a new social structure and classes to direct | Encomienda System |
| Conquer (Spain)of Mexico to Peru | Conquistadors |
| Longest Empire ever seen in the Americas | Inca Civilivation |
| Agreement dividing Spain and Portugal and that the other people can't cross | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| Last fully independent ruler of Aztec Empire | Montezuma |
| Idea that a country take raw materials and sell them for profit | Mercantilism |
| Discouraged by Bartolomeu Dias | Cape of Good Hope |
| First to sail from Europe to India by going around Southern Africa | Vasco de Gama |
| Known for his discovery of the new world | Christopher Columbus |
| The last Inca Empire | Atahuallpa |
| Wiped out 90% of Indigonus empire | Smallpox |
| Infection similar to smallpox | Influenza |
| Conquered by Cortex and Pizzaro | Aztecs |
| Taken over by Ottomans and destroyed city | Constantinople |
| Named the trip of Africa the cape or good hope | Bartholomew Diaz |
| First explorer to circumnavigate the world | Magellan |
| To sail or travel all the way around | Circumnavigate |
| Sea channel linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans | Straits of Magellan |
| A sailing ship used by the portugese to explore the West African coast and into the Atlantic ocean | Caravel |
| A ancient astronomical instrument that was a hand-held universe. Sailors used this to find the north star | Astrolabe |
| A stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangle trade | Middle Passage |
| A religious order of clerics regular of political rights for men in the catholic church headquartered in Rome. Founded in 1540 | Jesuits |
| A person mixed with European and Indigenous Americans | Mestizo |
| A person mixed with black and white parents | Mulatto |
| A person mixed with European and Spanish American decent | Creole |
| The valuable of domestic goods exported exceeds the value of foreign goods imported | Favorable balance of Trade |
| Ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of sovereign | Viceroy |
| Italian navigator and explorer. He helped lay the ground work for Britans later claim to Canada | John Cabot |
| Monarchs rule in their own rights or power | Absolute Monarchy |
| English philosopher who believed that humans had natural rights (rights your born with) life, liberty, property (liberal) | John Locke |
| English philosopher who believed that people are selfish and need a monarch to rule them | Thomas Hobbes |
| Rights you are born with and everyone deserves to have | Natural Rights |
| A genevan philosopher and writher who wrote the social contract | Rousseau |
| Explains that people could only expirence true freedom if they lived in a civil society | Social Contract |
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