European Explorers
Trade
Spanish America
North America
Mercantilism
100

A person who makes maps. 

Cartographer

100

An Indian soldier who represents a European power. 

Sepoy

100

A conqueror 

Conquistador 

100

The European nation that first took control over modern-day Canada.

France

100

A policy where nations sought to export more than they imported in order to gain more gold and silver.

Mercantilism 

200

The first (Portuguese) explorer to sail around Africa to get to India. 

Vasco de Gama 

200

The Muslim empire that controlled India before England took over. 

Mughal
200

He invaded modern-day Mexico and destroyed the Aztec Empire

Hernan Cortes

200

A representative of the King of Spain who ruled a colony in his name.

Viceroy 

200

The exchange of goods, ideas, and disease across the Atlantic Ocean between the old and new worlds.

Colombian Exchange

300

The year Christopher Columbus landed in Hispanola. 

1492

300

The Japanese port city where trade with the Dutch was authorized, though limited. 

Nagasaki 

300

He invaded modern-day Peru in South America and deposed the Inca empire. 

Francisco Pizzaro

300

War between France and England for control over land in North America. 

French and Indian War (also known as Seven Years War)

300

The trip enslaved Africans were forced to make across the Atlantic to European colonies.

The Middle Passage

400

The treaty that established a Line of Demarcation between Portuguese and Spanish landholdings

Treaty of Tordesillas 

400

The Italian Jesuit priest who moved to China and spread European knowledge. 

Matteo Ricci 

400

The highest social class in Spanish America

Peninsulares 

400

The Treaty that ended the French and Indian War

Treaty of Paris

400

Tax on imports or exports. 

Tariffs

500

The first explorer to circumnavigate the globe. 

Ferdinand Magellan

500

Term meaning to have full, independent power

sovereign 

500

Pirates hired by European powers to rob other European powers in the New World.

Privateers

500

Three reasons that motivated European explorers to colonize the New World. 

1. Religion

2. Gold

3. Trade

4. Glory

500

economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit

Capitalism

600

The first permanent Dutch settlement in Africa. 

Cape Town

600

The Chinese dynasty during the Age of Discovery. They expanded China's borders.

Qing Dynasty

600

Translator to Hernan Cortes, she married a Spaniard and moved to Europe. 

Malinche

600

A Dominican Priest who advocated for human rights for the Indigenous population of the New World

Bartolomeu de las Casas

600

economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available

Inflation