Vocab Flashcards
Small pox
A highly contagious viral disease characterized by fever, weakness, and skin eruption with pustules that form scabs
Colombian exchange
widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable disease, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres
Conquistador
one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
Mercantilism
belief in the benefits of profitable trading
Capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
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
belonging to or associated with former times
New world
western hemisphere: the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
Slave
a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
Indentured servant
a form of debt bondage,
Christopher Columbus
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
Hernan Cortez
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (
Francisco pizarro
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)
Treaty of tordesillas
signed at Tordesillas on 7 June 1494 and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands.
