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unit 4 vocab apw

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caravel   show
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show large trading merchant ship operating in European waters (especially by the Portuguese) 14th- 17th century  
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show Dutch sailing vessel that allowed them to control the Baltic trade; designed to facilitate transoceanic delivery with max space and crew efficiency; used from 16th to 17th centuries  
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Henry the Navigator   show
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show Portuguese explorer.; 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route for Europeans  
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show Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.  
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trading post empire   show
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Christopher Columbus   show
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show exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus' voyages.  
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Mercantilism   show
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The Great Dying   show
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show absolute legal ownership of another person, including the right to buy or sell that person; the form of slavery utilized in the Americas during the transatlantic slave trade  
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show economic system in Inca society where Inca subjects paid "taxes" with their labor and what they produced for a set period of time each year; later exploited by the Spanish as they forced Incas to mine silver  
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indentured servitude   show
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show grant of land made by Spain to a Spanish settler in the Americas, including the right to use local indigenous peoples as laborers on the farm  
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hacienda   show
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show exploration company made up of group of shareholders; each shareholder contributed money to company + received some share of the company's profits and debts; used by European rulers to finance exploration + compete against one another in global trade  
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show groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to Indian Ocean colonies  
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vodun   show
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Santeria   show
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casta paintings   show
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mestizo   show
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show term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.  
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creoles   show
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show Spanish-born upper class individuals who immigrated to Latin America; highest social class and given special privileges and the highest political positions in Latin American governments  
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show series of violent uprisings during the early reign of Louis XIV (1648 - 1653) caused by growing royal control and increased taxation; inspired Louis XIV to take total political control in fear of a future uprising  
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British East India Company   show
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show Dutch-chartered joint-stock company that controlled the spice trade in the East Indies  
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Triangular Trade   show
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coercive labor   show
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bullion   show
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