European Influence in Asia/European Expansion and Business
100
the building of colonies in new lands
What is colonial expansion?
100
uses a magnetized needle to determine direction
What is a compass?
100
a fleet of warships
What is armada?
100
the body's ability to resist infection
What is immunity?
100
a policy of turning inward from the world
What is isolationism?
200
a group of territories or nations under a single ruler or government
What is an empire?
200
allowed sailors to use the position of the sun and stars to determine latitude
What is the astrolabe?
200
products grown for a profit
What are cash crops?
200
workers who signed contracts to work for a set number of years to pay off their trip to America
What are indentured servants?
200
the movement of goods, people, ideas, and even diseases across the Atlantic
What is Columbian Exchange?
300
an imaginary line created by the Pope that ran down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from the North Pole to the South Pole that divided the new world between Spain and Portugal
What is line of demarcation?
300
a flat, moveable piece at the rear of a ship that makes it easier to steer
What is a rudder?
300
Spain gave landowners the right to use the labor of Native Americans who lived on the land
What is encomienda system?
300
special African officials appointed by governments to exchange enslaved people with Europeans
What are caboceers?
300
theory held that a nation became powerful by building up its supply of gold and silver
What is mercantilism?
400
circling the globe
What is circumnavigation?
400
a ship that drew little water, meaning it sat high on the seas and allowed sea captains to sail close to shore
What is a caravel?
400
paid rent and worked a fixed number of days each year for landowners
What are tenant farmers?
400
the middle part of triangular trade
What is the Middle Passage?
400
gold or silver
What is bullion?
500
Spanish soldiers who took over lands in the Caribbean and South America and the South Western region of North America