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Unit 3 Exploration

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Mercantilism a trade practice wherein nations maintain a favorable balance in trade by increasing exports and decreasing imports.
Joint-Stock Company Start of capitalism. Business shared by investors who each own one share of the business. Used by the English and Dutch
Columbian Exchange Transfer of people, animals, plants, technologies, and diseases between the Old World and the New World.
Middle Passage The transportation of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.
Conquistadors Spanish explorers that were allowed to claim land they discovered for Spain.
Prince Henry the Navigator Started a school of navigation where sea captains, mapmakers, and navigators could meet, learn and exchange ideas.
Triangle Trade Trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas.
Favorable Balance of Trade The selling of more goods to other countries instead of buying goods.
Caravel smaller, shallower ships with triangular sails which allowed ships to sail against the wind
Compass A tool that shows where magnetic north is; helps explorers navigate on land and water.
Colonies European settlements in the New World and Asia that would provide raw materials that the mother country would sell for profit.
Slave Coast Region between the Gold Coast and the mouth of the Niger River.
Sugar Plantations Plantations systems in Brazil where sugar was the cash crop and African slave labor was used.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella Started to build the Spanish Empire by financing voyages of exploration into the New World.
West Indies Islands in the Caribbean that were confused by Christopher Columbus to be India.
Henry Hudson English explorer who explored the territory from New York to Canada.
Jacques Cartier French explorer that discovered Canada and founded the city of Montreal.
Ferdinand Magellan Led expedition to circumnavigate the globe.
Bartolomew Dias First European explorer to reach the southern tip of Africa in 1488.
Vasco de Gama Sailed around Africa in 1498 to India and back.
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