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Unit 4 Vocab
AP World
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cartography | The study of map making |
| Primogeniture laws | System of inheritance - assets go to the first legit child when they die |
| Maritime empires | Britain, Spain, France - they had to learn to master monsoon winds |
| Astronomical charts | Shows how objects in space move (used for navigation guidance), good for distance travel and sailing. |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince during the age of exploration, had his dad (the Portuguese king)set up a navigation school, sponsored many trips on the west African coast. |
| Barthtolome Diaz | Portuguese Mariner and explorer, 1st European to round the southern tip of Africa, brought back gold and slaves. |
| Vasco De Gama | Portuguese explorer/Navigator, first European to sail from Europe to India |
| Trading post empire | Network of fortified out posts, established on coastlines, they helped countries like Britain (the BEIC), and Portugal who used heavily armed ships and fortified posts to control trade routes and taxing. |
| Manilla | A ring/ bracelet used as currency in West Africa. |
| Galleons | A multi decked ship that could be used for war and trade by the Spanish and Portugese |
| Northwest passage | A sea route, connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through Archipelago of Northern Canada, Europeans wanted to find another route to Asia because Spain and Portugal had already dominated southern routes to Asia |
| Quebec and New France | Samuel De Champlain installs the 1st permanent base in Canada, a fortified trading post |
| Henry Hudson and New Amsterdam | Known for discovering Hudson Bay and River, New Amsterdam was a trading post used to protect the Dutch West India Company's fur trade. |
| Columbian Exchange (things from the West hemisphere) | turkey. llama, tobacco, maize (corn), potatoes, tomatoes, chilies, cacao (chocolate), manioc (a plant), and syphilis (a disease) |
| Conquistadors | |
| Smallpox | |
| Cacao | |
| Okra | |
| Transatlantic slave trade | |
| Cash crop | |
| African Diaspora | |
| Creole | |
| Gumbo | |
| Indentured servitude | When someone works to pay off a debt, similar to chattel slavery. |
| Chattel slavery | A system where people were bought and sold like property to be servants/laborers |
| Asante and Kingdom of the Kongo | As Portuguese explorers/travelers came into Africa and started spreading their culture, |
| British East India Company (EIC) | |
| New Spain and Mexico City | |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | |
| Hispaniola | |
| Encomienda | |
| Bartolomé de Las Casas | |
| Hacienda system | |
| Mi’ta system | |
| Mercantilism | |
| Colonies | |
| Middle Passage | |
| Capital | |
| Commercial Revolution | |
| Joint-stock companies and limited liability | |
| Dutch East India Company(VOC) | |
| Triangular trade | |
| Monopolies | |
| Dahomey and the Oyo | |
| Creoles | |
| Santeria | |
| Vodun | |
| Candomble | |
| Virgin of Guadalupe | |
| Ana Nzinga’s resistance | |
| Cossack revolts | |
| Maratha conflict with Mughals | |
| Pueblo Revolts | |
| Glorious Revolution | |
| Marrons, Maroon wars, and Queen Nanny | |
| Millet system | |
| European royalty vs.nobility | |
| Sephardic Jews vs Askenazi Jews | |
| Boyars vs serfs | |
| The Castas system | |
| Technology diffused into Europe that was very useful: | Astronomical charts, astrolabe, magnetic compass, rudder, lanteen & square sails, Gutenberg printing press, cartography. |
| Demographic pressure | Primogeniture laws left many people poor and this encouraged them to go on explorations. |
| Columbian Exchange (things from the Eastern hemisphere) | cows, pigs, sheep, horses, wheat, rice, cotton, sugar, coffee, measles, smallpox, malaria, influenza, Bubonic plague. |
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