Key Terms & Ideas
This economic system involves people investing money in businesses to make a profit.
Capitalism
The country that Cabot sailed for.
England
The religious group that began spreading in the Middle East and Africa in the 600s C.E.
Islam
This document signed by Spain and Portugal set boundaries on their colonial expansion.
Treaty of Tordesillas
The German friar and theologian credited as the leader of the Reformation and Protestantism.
Martin Luther
The idea that a country's power depends on its wealth.
Mercantilism
Two explorers who sailed for France.
Verrazano and Cartier
This new invention helped explorers determine their latitude at sea.
Astrolabe
This was the main reason the transatlantic slave trade increased in the Americas.
Need for workers on plantations
The explorer who was rebuffed by Portugal but funded by Spain.
Christopher Columbus
This religious movement in Europe led to the creation of Protestant churches.
Reformation
The country that took the lead in finding a sea route to India.
What is Portugal
The impact European missionaries had on religion around the world.
They taught Christianity to people around the world
The city where the idea of democracy was first developed
Athens
The king and queen who funded Christopher Columbus's voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
This period of renewed interest in art, science, and learning began in Europe around the 1300s.
Renaissance
The two explorers who sailed for Spain
Cortés and Columbus
The devastating journey across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure.
The Middle Passage
The series of religious wars undertaken by European Christians to reclaim holy sites.
Crusades
The country that had a strict social hierarchy with Spanish people at the top and Native Americans at the bottom
Spain
This was the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and the New World.
Columbian Exchange
What England, France, and the Netherlands all hoped to find during their explorations.
northwest passage to Asia
What the French established in the Americas that made them money.
Fur Trade
How information from explorers helped mapmakers.
They create more accurate land and sea maps
Robert Cavelier De la Salle claimed the land at the end of the Mississippi River and named the land what, in honor of King Louis XIV
Lousiana