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Unit 3 MWH
Exploration
Question | Answer |
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Mercantilism | economic system built on collection of gold and silver by a government and having a favorable balance of trade |
Joint-stock Companies | Private individuals pooled their money together to fund trade voyages, in order to make a profit |
Amerigo Vespucci | Explorer and Map maker that realized that Columbus had discovered a new world in 1501 |
Capitalism | Economic system where individuals own the factors of production and operate businesses for a profit |
Ferdinand Magellan | credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world (but actually died in the Philippines) |
Columbian Exchange | Transfer of people, animals, plants, technologies, and diseases between the Old World and the New World |
Colonization | process where a country takes over an area not connected to it and controls its resources |
middle passage | transportation of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americas |
Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer sponsored by Spain to find a western route to India – Discovered Americas but thought it was India |
Samuel de Champlain | French explorer – found Quebec (Canada) |
Jacques Cartier | French explorer – found Montreal (Canada) |
Francisco Pizzaro | Spanish conquistador, conquered the Inca (Peru) in 1534 |
Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador, conquered the Aztecs (Mexico) in 1519 |
Bartholomew Dias | sailed for Portugal, first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope (South Africa) in 1488 |
Vasco de Gama | sailed for Portugal, first to sail south around Africa to India and return in 1498 |
Prince Henry the Navigator | Portugal - created school of navigation where sailors, captains and cartographers can share information |
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand | Spain - financed Columbus' voyages of exploration, also parents of Catherine of Aragon (Henry VIII's first wife) |
Hernando de Soto | Explored Florida and the Mississippi River for Spain |
Vasco Nunez de Balboa | Spanish explorer best known for being the first European to cross the Isthmus of Panama and see the to the Pacific Ocean (1513). |
Peninsulares | Top of the Spanish colonial society - a person born in Spain. Were allowed to have the highest positions of power. |
Creoles | 2nd in Spanish colonial society - children of peninsulares that were born in the colonies |
Mestizos | 3rd level of Spanish colonial society - children of mixed European and Native American heritage |
Mulattoes | 4th level of Spanish colonial society - children of mixed African and Spanish heritage |
Bartolome de las Casas | Spanish priest, historian and advocate for Native American rights |
Henry Hudson | English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the northeastern United States. |