Chapter 5 Flashcards
What’s an astrolabe?
An astrolabe is a device for navigation that used constellations as a guide and enabled mariners to find their North south position on the Earth’s surface.
What was chattel Slavery? 🔐
A form of slavery in which one person is owned by another as a piece of property, like a game piece on the board of chess ♟️
What is Christian humanism
It’s a movement, also called Northern Renaissance humanism, and stressed the study of Greek, Roman, and the early Christian fathers to awaken individual piety.
What is Colonialism?
The practice in which one group of people attempts to establish control over another group, usually for purposes of economic exploration
What was the Colombian Exchange?
The flow of plants, animals, and diseases between the Eastern and Western hemisphere.
Who are conquistadors?
Spanish explorers in the Americas during the Age of Exploration.
What’s an economienda? 👨🌾🇪🇸
A system of coerced labor based on a grant from the Spanish Crown entitling conquistadors to the labor a specified number of indigenous people.
What are indentured servants? 📝🕜
They’re people bound by a contract to work for someone for an agreed upon number of years or time.
What are indulgences?
A way to reduce or cancel the time after death during which people suffer in purgatory to atone for their sins before reaching heaven.
What is mercantilism?
Mercantilism is an economic theory in which a nation’s power is dependant on the wealth it gains from exports compared to all imports. Basically
More exports than imports 🤑
What was the middle passage.?
It is the middle (second) leg of the 3 legged triangular trade that carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
It was a 1494 agreement 🤝 awarding Portugal and Spain by dividing the Atlantic Ocean along a line 100 leagues west of the Cape Verde Islands off the Coast of Africa.
What was the triangular trade?
The trade in goods and enslaved people that took place in the Americas, Europe, and West Africa during the late 15th century to the early 19th centuries.
