Columbian Exchange Vocabulary Flashcards
Conquistador
A hispanic conqueror
Columbian Exchange
The widespread of animals, plants, culture, human population, and ideas
Mercantilism
The national economic policy that says a nation benefits by accumulating monetary reserves
Capitalism
The social system founded upon individual rights
Small Pox
A disease caused by the Variola virus, spread across the world through Columbian Exchange
Triangular Trade
The pattern of Columbian Exchange routes across the Atlantic Ocean
Middle Passage
The stage in which millions of people from Africa were shipped to the New World
Old World
Anything in the Eastern Hemisphere (Europe, Asia, Africa etc.).
New World
Anything in the Western Hemisphere (Americas)
Slave
A system where people are treated as property to be bought & sold, and are forced to work
Indentured Slave
Also a slave but work only for a number of years until freed
Christopher Columbus
The explorer who “discovered the Americas” in 1492
Hernan Cortez
A Spanish conquistador who took Mexico for the Spaniards and caused the fall of the Aztec Empire
Francisco Pizarro
A spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire
Treaty of Tordesillas
A treaty which divided the newly discovered islands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain
