Columbian Exchange Vocabulary Flashcards
Conquistador
A Spanish conqueror
Colombian exchange
Exchange of goods between the American and Afro Eurasian hemispheres following the voyage to the Americas
Mercantilism
Belief in the benefits of profitable trading
Capitalism
Am economic and political system in which a country’s trade industry are controlled by private owners for profit rather than by state
Small pox
A disease unique to humans caused by either of two virus variants various major and variola minor
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
Europe
New world
The Americas
Slave
Someone kept without their will.
Forced to stay and work, etc.
Indentured servant
A person who signs up to work for someone in order to pay a debt.
Christopher Columbus
An Italian explorer, navigator, and colonizer, born in the republic of genoa (Italy).
Hernan Cortez
Spanish conqueror who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec empire
Francisco Pizarro
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan empire.
Treaty of tordesillas
Treaty between Portugal and Spain in 1494 where they agreed to divide up all the land on the earth outside of Europe between the two of them no matter who was already living there.
