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to go completely around something, such as the world (p. 622, 623)
What is cicumnavigate
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec (p. 624)
What is Hernán Cortés
system for making goods in workers’ homes (p. 634)
What is cottage industry
crops grown in large amounts to be sold for profit
What is cash crop
This product's fibers are processed to create sugar as a final product
What is sugar cane
Spanish soldiers who conquered people in other lands (p. 622)
What is conquistadors
a powerful Native American empire in what is now called Mexico (p. 624)
What is Aztec
Native Americans called this group of missionaries the "Black Robes" (p. 630)
What is Jesuits
a disease that causes a high fever and often death
What is smallpox
Who first settled the region that is part of present-day New York City?
The Dutch
Ancient greek instrument used to find latitude (p. 619)
What is Astrolabe
True or False: Atahualpa, the Inca ruler, honored Pizarro’s request that he give up his gods. (p. 627)
What is False
businessperson who invests in a project (p. 633)
What is entrepreneur
global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and disease
What is Columbian Exchange
These two countries did the most exploring and settling in the Americas during the 1500s
What is Portugal and Spain
At first, why did European set out to explore new lands? (p. 618)
What is find new trade routes to Asia
True or False: European diseases killed more Aztec people than Spanish weapons did. (p. 625)
What is true
True or False: Without enslaved Africans, Brazil most likely would not have become one of Portugal’s most profitable overseas territories. (p. 635)
What is True
an exchange of goods; business
What is commerce
What was a result of the Commercial Revolution?
Development of new business methods
an agreement that divided the Americas between Spain and Portugal (p. 622)
What is Treaty of Tordesillas
Montezuma II first believed that Cortés was _______________, an Aztec god, returning to reclaim Mexico. (p. 625)
What is Quetzalcoatl
The main motive behind the expeditions at the beginning of the Age of Exploration was (p. 618)
What is a search for new routes to Asia.
economic theory that depends on a great amount of exports than imports in order to increase a country's profits
What is Mercantilism
The expeditions of Hernán Cortés and Francisco Pizarro resulted in the...
destruction of the Aztec and Inca empires.