the age of discovery Flashcards
conquistador
a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
colony
a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
mercantillism
belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
balance of trade
the difference in value between a country’s imports and exports.
the compass
compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic “cardinal directions”, or “points”.
joint stock company
a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
triangular trade
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
columbian exchange
The Columbian Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus’s 1492 voyage.
middle passage
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
treaty of tordesillas
Treaty of Tordesillas, (June 7, 1494), agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
Henry the Navigator
Infante Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), better known as Henry the Navigator (Portuguese: Infante Dom Henrique, o Navegador), was an important figure in 15th-century Portuguese politics and in the early days of the Portuguese Empire.
christopher columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer, navigator, colonizer, and citizen of the Republic of Genoa
vasco de gama
Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
herman cortez
Hernán Cortés de Monroy y Pizarro Altamirano, Marquis of the Valley of Oaxaca was a Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of .
Zheng he
Zheng He, formerly romanized as Cheng Ho, was a Hui court eunuch, mariner, explorer, diplomat, and fleet admiral during China’s early Ming dynasty
ferdinand magellan
Ferdinand Magellan was a Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth, completed by Juan Sebastián Elcano
spice trade
The spice trade refers to the trade between historical civilizations in Asia, Northeast Africa and Europe.
encomedienda
a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.
dutch east india company
The United East Indian Company, referred to by the British as the Dutch East India Company, was originally established as a chartered company in 1602, when the Dutch government granted it a 21-year monopoly on Dutch spice trade
arawak
a member of a people originally of the Greater Antilles and adjacent South America, now living mainly in Guiana.
the philipines
The Philippines is a Southeast Asian country in the Western Pacific, comprising more than 7,000 islands.
fort jesus mombasa
Fort Jesus is a Portuguese fort located on Mombasa Island. It was built between 1593 and 1596, by order of King Philip I of Portugal, to guard the Old Port of Mombasa, Kenya.
kongo kingdom
The Kingdom of Kongo was an African kingdom located in west central Africa in what is now northern Angola, Cabinda, the Republic of the Congo, the western portion of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the southernmost part of Gabon.
menin tribe
a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader.
