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The Explorers Trade I Hope You Read the Textbook 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 10 Point 20 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points 30 Points 40 Points 50 Points Miscellaneous Define these terms
A Spanish conqueror of the Americas
Who is a conquistador?
A settlement of people living in a new territory, controlled by the parent country by trade and direct government control
What is a colony?
This theory held that a nation’s power was determined by wealth; particularly a large supply of gold and silver
What is mercantilism?
The difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time; nations want it to be favorable
What is the balance of trade?
This pattern connected trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the American continents
What is the triangular trade?
This explorer believed he could reach Asia by sailing west
Who was Christopher Columbus?
He took control of the Inca empire in South America
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
He explored the New England coastline for England
Who was John Cabot?
He went around the Cape of Africa to the coast of India
Who was Vasco da Gama (Also-Pedro Cabral)
He is credited with discovering the Philippines for Spain; and circumnavigating
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
The three motivating factors for European exploration
What were the The Three G’?- Gold, Glory And God
This country became the wealthiest nation in the 16 th century
What is Spain?
Cortes conquered this group in Mexico
Who are the Aztecs?
A line of demarcation was drawn up in what agreement created this “line”?
The Treaty of Tordesillas
The extensive exchange of plants, animals, and food between the old and new worlds. (as well as disease)
What was the Columbian Exchange?
This Puritan group settles in “New England” in 1620
The Pilgrims
A large agricultural estate; you might grow sugar or cotton on one
What is a plantation?
This is what the journey for most slaves to the Americas was called
What was the middle passage?
A person of mixed Spanish and Native American descent
What is a mestizo?
This is the name given to the slave trade of Africans in the Americas
The Atlantic Slave Trade
He discovered the Hudson Bay
Who was Henry Hudson?
Forced labor, starvation and especially ___________, took a fearful toll on the Native Americans.
What is disease?
The first major crop produced in the Americas and shipped to Europe; largely in the Caribbean and Brazil
What is sugarcane?
The name of the conflict that resulted in French land in eastern North America becoming British property
What is the French and Indian war?
The system in which the Spanish forced Native Americans and later African slaves to work for Spanish landlords
Who was encomienda?
Make your wager
Based on private ownership and investment of resources, this economic system grew as a result of colonization
What is capitalism