Age of Exploration Vocab #2
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Things from Europe to the New World | horses, cattle, sheep, pigs, diseases, slaves from Africa
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| colony | a country or an area ruled by another country from far away
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| plantation | a large farm, often worked by slaves, where crops such as sugar, tobacco, or rubber are grown
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| mercantilism | an economic policy where nations try to gather as much gold and silver as possible, done by controlling trade and establishing colonies
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| inflation | an increase in the supply of money compared to goods, resulting in higher prices
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| capitalism | an economic system based on investment of money (capital) for profit
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| epidemic | an outbreak of a disease that affects many people
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| longitude | a measure of how far East or West you are on the globe (lines run up and down)
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| latitude | a measure of how far North or South you are on the globe (lines run east and west)
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| Henry the Navigator | he encouraged Portuguese exploration and began a school of navigation
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| Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer. First European to sail around the Southern tip of Africa
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| Vasco de Gama | Portuguese explorer. Reached India by sea by going around Africa
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| Pedro Cabral | Portuguese explorer. Blown off course and finds Brazil in South America. Claims the land for Portugal
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| Ferdinand Magellan | His crew was the first to circumnavigate the globe. He dies in the Philipines.
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