Columbian Exchange Vocabulary Flashcards
Columbian exchange
A widespread exchange if animals,plants,culture,human populations,communicable disease,technology and ideas between America and Afro-Eurasian hemisphere
Conquistador
A conqueror
Mercantilism
Belief in the benefits of profitable trading
Capitalism
Economic political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit
Small pox
Infectious disease unique to humans caused by two virus variants
Triangular trade
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
Middle Passage
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
Old world
of or pertaining to the ancient world or to a former period of history.
New world
western hemisphere: the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
Slave
a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
Indentured servant
Indentured servitude was a form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the American colonies and elsewhere. It was most used as a way for poor teenagers in Britain and the German states to get free passage to the American colonies
Christopher Columbus
Columbus: Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China
Hernan Cortes
Cortes: Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
Francisco Pizarro
Pizarro: Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed at Tordesillas on 7 June 1494 and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde island
