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Francisco Pizzaro
Known for discovering the Bahamas, Cuba and enslaving the indigenous Taino people
Christopher Columbus
The French were successful in trading what in the New World?
Fur
The movement of goods, animals, and diseases from the Old World to the New World is called…
The Columbian Exchange
Viceroy
A private trading company that uses merchant investors to raise money and share risks
Joint - Stock Company
the Portuguese explorer that rounded the southernmost tip of Africa and made it to India
Vasco Da Gama
Spanish ships used for transporting cargo, usually had three or more decks and masts
Galleon
The purpose of colonies is to ship raw materials to the colonial power and buy finished goods from the colonial power. This statement reflects the basic idea of which economic system?
Mercantilism
group at the top of Spain’s castas because they are born on the Iberian Peninsula/ Europe
Peninsulares
Responsible for the conquest of the Aztec Empire
Hernan Cortez
First explorer to make it around the Cape of Good Hope.
Bartolomeu Dias
could be used to navigate at sea based on using measurements of the stars to find latitude.
Astrolabe
The labor system established originally by the Incan government but then used by the Spanish Empire in Peru
M'ita System
States in the New World
Viceroyalties
First to circumnavigate the world and found a way through South America - has a Strait named after him
Ferdinand Magellan
Sponsored many explorers; offered training in mapmaking, ship design & navigation
Henry the Navigator
this East India Company used trade and war to replace the Portuguese as the dominant European power in Asia
Dutch East India Company
the network of trade that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Triangular Trade
The line drawn north to south though the Atlantic, in order to divide the non-European world between Portugal and Spain, was the product of what treaty?
Treaty of Tordesilla
the name of the pass used by the Portuguese to assume control of their trading empire
Cartaz
made four voyages & concluded that the lands Columbus had called the “Indies” were part of a “New World”.
Hint: The new world is named after him
Amerigo Vespucci
the journey from Africa to the Americas across the Atlantic for African slaves
The Middle Passage
Native Labor System that used indigenous people as free labor
Encomeinda
Which country’s geography gave it a distinct advantage at the start of the Age of Exploration?
Portugal