Beginning Exploration
What is the name for people who specialize in creating maps?
Cartographers
Spanish conquerors who arrived in the Americas
Conquistadors
English Protestants who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts
Pilgrims
Large agricultural estates run by an owner or an owner's overseer
Plantation
The exclusive control of a business or industry is a what?
Monopoly
World claim agreement between Spain & Portugal for dividing up the world for exploration & settlement
Treaty of Tordesillas
Pirates who worked with the approval of European governments
Privateers
An agreement between people that eventually leads to self-governing laws.
Compact
Revolts led by captives on boats are called what?
Mutinies
A rise in prices that is linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available is called what?
Inflation
The definition of sailing around the world
Circumnavigate
The capital of the Aztec Empire that would eventually become Mexico City
Tenochtitlan
War that broke out between the British Colonies & the French in North America (called the Seven Year's War in Europe)
The French & Indian War
What was a crop besides cotton that was grown primarily thanks to slave labor.
Tobacco, Molasses, Rum (Sugar).
Enterprising business people who organize, manage, & take on risks of doing business.
Entrepreneurs
The Dutch would form this to control trade & the ocean
East India Company
Young woman who aided Cortes in his conquest of the Aztecs
Malinche
What was the Treaty of Paris?
Treaty that got the French kicked out of the New World
What was the Triangular Trade
Trade between Europe, Africa, and America that included materials, goods, and slaves.
Taxes on imported goods are known as what?
Tariffs
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
First person to Circumnavigate the globe
Mestizos were what
People of Native American & European descent
What was the first English Colony
Jamestown
What was the Middle Passage
The hardest portion of the slave trade
Income from taxes or financial gain
Revenue