Columbian Exchange Flashcards
conquistador
A conquistador was the name given to the Fifteenth-to-Seventeenth century Spanish and Portuguese soldiers who conquered much of the world, most famously the Central and Southern Americas.
Columbian exchange
The Columbian Exchange was the widespread exchange of animals,plants, culture, human populations (including slaves),communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemisphe
Mercantilism
Mercantilism is a national economic policy that says that a nation benefits by accumulating monetary reserves through a positive balance of trade, especially of finished goods.
Capitalism
A way of organizing an economy so that the things are Used to make transport products.
Small pox
A serious disease that cause fever and rash and often death
Triangular trade
Multilateral trade in which A’s purchase from country B are paid for by earnings from country A’s sales to country C
Middle passage
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
Old world
part of the world that was known before the discovery of Americas, comprising Europe, Asia, and Africa; the eastern hemisphere
New world
western hemisphere: the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
Slave
Is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold
Indentured servant
Was a form of dept bondage established years of the American colones
Christopher Columbus
Was an Italian explorer navigator and colonizer he completely four voyages across the Atlantic ocean
Hernan Cortez
Conquered the Aztecs
Francisco Pizarro
Conquered the incas
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Tordesillas, (June 7, 1494), agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
