Vocab Chapter 1 Flashcards
Caravels
Ships with big triangular sails and had rudders to make steering easier. The ships were faster and lighter, and could sail against the wind.
Circumnavigate
To sail all the way around the earth.
The Columbian exchange
The trade of animals, food, plants, ideas, and illness between North and South America (the new world), Asia, Africa, and Europe (the old world).
Conquistadors
A Spanish soldier who explored and conquered land in the Americas for Spain.
Conquest
To take over a place and its people by using force.
The church of England or the Anglican Church.
A church started by King Henry the eighth because he wanted to divorce his first wife Catherine of Argon for Ann Bolin.
It is almost exactly the same as the Roman Catholic Church, but the King is in charge instead of a pope.
Astrolabe
A tool that let navigators learn where their ship was by charting the position of the stars.
Charter
A document that lets someone start a colony.
Colony of Roanoke
The first attempted English colony in Virginia that disappeared after the setters fought with the natives.
Immune
To have a resistance or not to be affected by an illness.
African Diaspora.
African people being sprinkled all over the world by force.
Plantations
A huge farm that specialized in one crop and its growth. Often using slave labour.
- tobacco
- cotton
- sugar
- coffee
Printing press
A device that quickly let people mass produce documents using blocked, moveable, blocks with letters that were backwards and had ink on them.
Protestant reformation
A 16th century religious movement that wanted to reform or changed the Catholic Church.
Northwest passage
A rout by water that would let ships sail from the Atlantic to Pacific through North America.
