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A Dutch type of sailing vessel originally designed as a dedicated cargo vessel.
Fluyt
Representatives of the Spanish monarch in Spain's colonial empire.
Viceroys
Who was the first European monarch to sponsor expeditions while looking for a waterway to Asia and African gold?
Prince Henry the Navigator
This European country was the leader in the exploration of the New World
Spain
The path of trade between the Old World and the New World
Triangular Trade
The ability to make maps
Cartography
A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination.
Indentured servitude
This explorer left Spain in 1492 and discovered the "New World"...
Christopher Columbus
This European country set up ports along the west coast of Africa, eventually allowing them to become the leader in the exploration of the New World
Portugal
What country experienced external conflict with the Dutch and English?
Portugal
Maps of the stars and galaxies
Astronomical Chart
The war between Spain and Portugal lead to these countries dividing up the Americas between them.
The Treaty of Tordesillas
What are the empires that are based on small outposts rather than control of large territories called?
What people were the first to be put to work? (eventually disease wiped out a large percentage of these people)
Indigenous people
This was a direct effect of the new foods introduced to the Old World.
The world Population doubled
The sailing ship sail that was shaped like a triangle
The lateen sail
Africans captured and traded to the New World
The Transatlantic Slave trade
This disease is credited with killing almost 90% of the indigenous population in America's
Smallpox
The inability of European countries to have enough labor for their crops led to what type of labor?
Slavery
This company became the leading trading company in the 17th century
British East India Company
The exchange of ideas, culture, crops, people, and animals between the Old World and the New World
The Columbian Exchange
A blending of beliefs and practices from different religions into one faith.
Syncretism
Hernan Cortes and his conquistadors took over the what?
Aztec Empire
What resource was Spain actually looking for when they found a lot of silver?
Gold
The worst section of the Atlantic Slave trade.
The Middle Passage