Exploration Flashcards
Sailed for the Spanish,Italian himself landed in Mexico
Christopher Columbus
A light fast sailing ship
Caravel
Crew sailed all the way around world he didn’t make it
Magellan
Portuguese, sailed around Africa to India
Vasco da Gama
English sailed around the world later led the English armada to victory
Sir Francis Drake of England
Or sail completely around the world
Circumnavigate
In this system, a colonist was given a certain amount of land and a number of native Americans to work the land in exchange U had to teach them Christianity
Encomienda
Led a conquest of the Aztec empire
Hernán cortés
A Spanish conquered of Indians
Conquistador
Aztec emperor who was in charge
Moctezuma 2
Led conquest of the inca empire
Francisco Pizarro
In a emperor
Atahualpa
Spanish kings chose officials, each of whom ruled a large area in the Kings name
Viceroys
Wanted better treatment of native people by the Spanish
Priest Bartolomé de las Casas
In 1494, drew an imaginary line through the Atlantic splitting the new world up between Spain and Portugal
Treaty of tordesillas
An exchange of plants, animals, and diseases back and forth from new world to Europe
Colombian Exchange
New economic system, the more wealth a nation has the more protected it can be!!
Mercantilism
A country Receives more gold and silver than pays other country’s
Balance of trade
Or grants of money, to help business people start new industries
Subsidies
Most economic activity is carried on by private individuals or organizations in order to seek a profit
Capitalism
Soon, investors began to pool their money into ______________ to fund ever-larger businesses
Joint-stock companies
Estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on a large scale
Plantation
Captured Africans were marched to slave ships where they became part of a network called the
Triangle trade
Brought Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves
Middle trade
As a result of the slave trade, people of African descent spread every throughout the Americas and Western Europe
African diaspora
