Vocab
The route of triangular trade that went from Africa to America.
What was the Middle Passage?
This person conquered the Incans in Peru.
Who was Pizarro?
Southern tip of Africa
What is the Cape of Good Hope?
Set rules for governing the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s.
What are conquistadors?
Portuguese prince who sponsored technology and map making to send Portuguese mariners around Africa and to Asia
Who was Prince Henry?
The first permanent English colony.
What is Jamestown, VA?
This empire grew rich producing silk and cotton.
What is the Mughal Empire?
A mapmaker.
What is a cartographer?
The first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Who was Magellan?
Country that sponsored Columbus's voyages.
What is Spain?
An economic policy in which it was believed that a nation must export more goods than it imports to build its supply of gold and silver
What is mercantilism?
A tax paid on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
This person conquered the Aztec empire in Mexico.
Who was Cortes?
This country had the most power in the age of conquistadors.
What is Spain?
This country controlled the spice trade for much of the 1500s.
What is Portugal?
To sail around the world.
What is to circumnavigate?
This person helped Cortes create alliances.
Who was Malinche?
This country's people believed European explorers to be barbaric.
What is China?
This was carried to the Americas by Europeans along with food, people, gold, and spices.
What is disease?