Columbian Exchange Vocab

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Conquistador

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A conqueror, esp. one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

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Columbia exchange

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A widespread trade of animals, plants, culture, population, diseases, technology, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres

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Mercantilism

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Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism

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Capitalism

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An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state

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Small pox

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A serious and contagious disease due to a virus

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Triangular trade

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A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another

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Middle passage

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The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from west Africa to the West Indies

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Old world

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Belonging to or associated with former times esp. when considered quaint and attractive

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New world

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Western Hemisphere; the hemisphere that includes north and South America

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Slave

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A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them

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Indentured servant

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Form of debt bondage

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Christopher Columbus

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Italian navigator who discovered the new world in the service of Spain while looking for a route to china (1451-1506)

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Hernan Cortez

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Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)

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Francisco Pizarro

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Spanish conquistador who conquered the incas in what is not Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)

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Treaty of tordesillas

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Treaty that divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain