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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The claiming and settlement of foreign territories for the purpose of gaining resources for the mother country. | Colonization |
| A territory that is under political control of another country. | Colony |
| A Spanish conqueror in the Americas. | Conquistador |
| A system in which the Spanish king gave Spanish settlers the right to the labor of the Native Americans who lived in a particular area. | Encomienda |
| The action of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work and making use of and benefiting from natural resources. | Exploitation |
| The development of an increasingly integrated global economy through trade, finances, and communication. | Globalization |
| An original or native area where a person lives; the native populations of a country are called... | Indigenous |
| A person sent to a foreign country to do religious work like convince people to join a religion or to help people that are sick, etc. | Missionary |
| Items that come from nature; they are not man made. | Natural Resources |
| A company from the Netherlands that was primarily interested in trading with India for spices, indigo, and other natural resources. | Dutch East India Company |
| This trade brought thousands of native Africans to the Americas to work as slaves on large farms. | Transatlantic Slave Trade |
| A massive trading system between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. Europe provided luxury items, guns, and alcohol to Africa and the Americas. Africa provided slaves to the Americas, and the Americas sent crops and furs to Europe thus creating... | Triangular Trade Route |
| The middle part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from Africa to the Americas. | Middle Passage |
| Sail around (the world): Magellan’s crew (Magellan died) was the first to navigate the circumference of the earth. It basically means to travel all the way around. | Circumnavigate |
| The period from 1400-1600 when Europeans sailed across the vast oceans to explore Asia, Africa, and the Americas. | Age of Exploration |
| A Way to sail through North America and then on to Asia by way of the Arctic Ocean. | Northwest Passage |
| A new type of ship that was strong, fast, easily maneuverable, and able to sail against the wind. | Caravel |
| was invented by the Greeks and improved by the Arabs and featured a way to measure the angles of the sun and stars in order to determine latitude, which is the distance of a place north or south of the equator. | Astrolabe |
| A narrow twisting water passage near the tip of South America that made travel to the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean much easier. | Strait of Magellan |
| Triangular Sails that allowed ships to sail into the wind. | Lateen Sails |
| Southern tip of Africa. | Cape of Good Hope |
| 50 degrees West longitude. This was an imaginary line that separated what Spain and Portugal could claim in the Americas. Spain could control land discovered west of the line and Portugal could claim land east of this line.Why South America mostly Spanish | Line of Demarcation |
| The Western Hemisphere- It was not really new because indigenous people lived there but it was new land to the European explorers. (term name) refers to the landmasses of North and South America that Columbus explored from 1492-1494. | New World |
| This device was invented in the 1100s and by the 1200s, the needle pivoted on a pin on a card that showed the directions. | Magnetic Compass |
| Italian explorer who sailed for Spain. He was trying to reach the spice islands but inadvertently sailed in the wrong direction. Instead, he found San Salvador, Cuba, Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, and the South American mainland from 1492-1504. | Christopher Columbus |
| A Portuguese explorer who served Spain and whose crew became the first to circumnavigate the globe from 1519-1522. | Ferdinand Magellan |
| He was the third son of King John I of Portugal and Queen Philippa of Lancaster who organized expeditions of sailors to explore the West Coast of Africa. | Prince Henry the Navigator |
| A Portuguese explorer who searched for and found a trade route to India. | Vasco da Gama |
| Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, & fleet admiral during China’s Ming Dynasty. Finished 7 voyages throughout the Indian Ocean to show off China’s amazing creations. Showed off Chinese goods, took animals & goods from other places & brought themto China | Zheng He |
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