Vocab
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Misc.
100
The name given to the trading between western and eastern hemispheres.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
100
The Italian explorer who is credited as the "Discoverer of the New World".
Who was Christopher Columbus?
100
The main money maker that was adopted by both early French and Dutch settlements in the Americas.
What was fur trading?
100
The name given to the route taken to transport manufactured goods, slaves, and raw materials to three continents.
What was the Triangular Trade?
200
To travel completely around the globe.
What is Circumnavigate?
200
The Spanish royalty that funded Christopher Columbus's voyages.
Who were King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella?
200
The name given to highly profitable plants that grew well and fast in the uncultivated American soil.
What is a cash crop?
200
The name Christopher Columbus gave to the people of the island he landed on in 1492.
What was the Indians?
300
The act of converting new peoples to the religion of Christianity.
What is Evangelization?
300
The Italian captain that the Americas were named after, he explored mostly the Caribbean and South America.
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
300
The country that was the leading trader of enslaved people in the 1500s.
What was Portugal?
300
The way that European forces overcame the Aztec and Incan empires while colonizing them.
What were diseases?
400
A business or company owning land and operating in multiple countries.
What is a Multinational Corporation?
400
The first European to sail to the Indian coast by rounding the southern tip of Africa.
Who was Vasco da Gama?
400
The agreement the Pope made between Spain and Portugal that used a latitudinal line to mark what parts of the world the countries could own and travel to.
What was the Treaty of Tordesillas?
400
A way to establish a stronger hold on native populations in colonized areas and establish common ground among the people.
What was Christianity's role in colonization?
500
The name given to people born in Europe and resided temporarily in Latin America typically for political or economic gain.
What is Peninsular?
500
The first European to circumnavigate the globe.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
500
A company focused on bringing the Indian spice trade to the greater group of Europe, often credited as the first multinational corporation.
What was the Dutch East India Company?
500
An innovative Spanish ship that was much larger and much heavier than the previous caravel.
What was a galleon?