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| Word | Defination |
|---|---|
| Colonization | The claiming and settlement of foreign territories for the purpose of gaining resources for the mother country. |
| Colony | A territory that is under political control of another country |
| Conquistador | A Spanish conqueror in the Americas |
| Encomienda | 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 |
| Exploitation | The action of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work and making use of and benefiting from natural resources |
| Globalization | The development of an increasingly integrated global economy through trade, finances, and communication. |
| Indigenous | An original or native area where a person lives; the native populations of a country are called indigenous people. |
| Missionary | 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. |
| Natural Resources | Items that come from nature; they are not man made |
| Dutch East India Company | A company from the Netherlands that was primarily interested in trading with India for spices, indigo, and other natural resources |
| Transatlantic Slave Trade | The Transatlantic Slave Trade brought thousands of native Africans to the Americas to work as slaves on large farms |
| Triangular Trade Route | 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... |
| Middle Passage | The middle part of the Transatlantic Slave Trade from Africa to the Americas |
| Circumnavigate | 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. |
| Age of Exploration | The period from 1400-1600 when Europeans sailed across the vast oceans to explore Asia, Africa, and the Americas. |
| Northwest Passage | A Way to sail through North America and then on to Asia by way of the Arctic Ocean |
| Caravel | A new type of ship that was strong, fast, easily maneuverable, and able to sail against the wind. |
| Astrolabe | The astrolabe 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. |
| Strait of Magellan | A narrow twisting water passage near the tip of South America that made travel to the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean much easier. |
| Lateen Sails | Triangular Sails that allowed ships to sail into the wind. |
| Cape of Good Hope | Southern tip of Africa |
| Line of Demarcation | 50 degrees West longitude. This was an imaginary line that separated what Spain and Portugal could claim in the Americas. |
| New World | The Western Hemisphere- It was not really new because indigenous people lived there but it was new land to the European explorers. The New World refers to the landmasses of North and South America that Columbus explored from 1492-1494. |
| Magnetic Compass | This device was invented in the 1100s and by the 1200s, the needle pivoted on a pin on a card that showed the directions. |
| Christopher Columbus | 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. |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who served Spain and whose crew became the first to circumnavigate the globe from 1519-1522. |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | 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. |
| Vasco da Gama | A Portuguese explorer who searched for and found a trade route to India. |
| Zheng He | 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 |
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