Exploration Flashcards

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Sailed for the Spanish,Italian himself landed in Mexico

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Christopher Columbus

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A light fast sailing ship

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Caravel

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Crew sailed all the way around world he didn’t make it

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Magellan

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Portuguese, sailed around Africa to India

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Vasco da Gama

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English sailed around the world later led the English armada to victory

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Sir Francis Drake of England

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Or sail completely around the world

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Circumnavigate

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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

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Encomienda

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Led a conquest of the Aztec empire

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Hernán cortés

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A Spanish conquered of Indians

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Conquistador

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Aztec emperor who was in charge

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Moctezuma 2

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10
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Led conquest of the inca empire

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Francisco Pizarro

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In a emperor

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Atahualpa

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Spanish kings chose officials, each of whom ruled a large area in the Kings name

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Viceroys

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Wanted better treatment of native people by the Spanish

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Priest Bartolomé de las Casas

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In 1494, drew an imaginary line through the Atlantic splitting the new world up between Spain and Portugal

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Treaty of tordesillas

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An exchange of plants, animals, and diseases back and forth from new world to Europe

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Colombian Exchange

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New economic system, the more wealth a nation has the more protected it can be!!

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Mercantilism

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A country Receives more gold and silver than pays other country’s

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Balance of trade

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Or grants of money, to help business people start new industries

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Subsidies

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Most economic activity is carried on by private individuals or organizations in order to seek a profit

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Capitalism

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Soon, investors began to pool their money into ______________ to fund ever-larger businesses

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Joint-stock companies

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Estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on a large scale

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Plantation

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Captured Africans were marched to slave ships where they became part of a network called the

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Triangle trade

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Brought Africans to the Americas to be sold as slaves

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Middle trade

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As a result of the slave trade, people of African descent spread every throughout the Americas and Western Europe

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African diaspora