The Age of Discovery Flashcards
Conquistador
Conquistadors is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.
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.
Mercantilism
belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
Balance of Trade
The commercial balance or net exports (sometimes symbolized as NX), is the difference between the monetary value of exports and imports of output in an economy over a certain period, measured in the currency of that economy.
The Compass
is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic “cardinal directions”, or “points”.
Joint Stock Company
A joint-stock company is a business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders.
Triangular trade
Triangular trade or triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions.
Columbian Exchange
was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, after Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage.
Middle Passage
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
Treaty of Tordesillas
The other side of the world would be divided a few decades later by the Treaty of Zaragoza or Saragossa, signed on 22 April 1529, which specified the antimeridian to the line of demarcation specified in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
Henry the Navigator
Infante Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known as Henry the Navigator, 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 da Gama
Vasco da Gama, 1st Count of Vidigueira, was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea.
Hernan Cortes
Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers who began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.
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
