HIES Klingman Age of Exploration
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susannahjg on January 27, 2010
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Modern World History & Cultures
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42 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 monopoly | one group has complete control over certain trade, eliminates competition |
| Caravel | new type of ship, that uses new sail |
| Astrolabe | measures latitude |
| Cartographer | map maker |
| navigate | telling you were to go |
| bartholomew dias | first to go around Cape of Good Hope |
| vasco de gama | first portuguese sailor to make it around Africa to India |
| christopher columbus | italian, sailed for spain because no one else would fund him, he was looking for a sea route to asia, discovered america |
| line of demarcation | line drawn to separate Spain's and Portugal's new colonies |
| Amerigo Vespucci | followed Columbus but realized it wasn't Asia, documented information, a german cartographer named America after him |
| Ferdinand Magellan | portuguese, sailed for spain, first to circumnavigate, believed fastest way to Asia was around America, died in the Philippines, tip of south america is named after him |
| the Northwest Passage | a route around the north america, a way to asia through the north, explorers were unsucessful |
| Jacques Cartier | explored Saint Lawrence River Area in Quebec, French |
| Henry Hudson | dutch, discovered Hudson River |
| John Cabot | found Newfoundland, english |
| god, gold, and glory | 3 reasons why Spain colonized |
| conquistador | a conqueror |
| hernan cortes | conquered to get gold and spread Christianity, took advantage of aztecs and killed them with European diesis, |
| alliance | a partnership |
| immunity | when your body is able to build up resistance in fighting off an illness |
| francisco pizarro | conquered peru, took advantage of Incas, spread in a large portion of South America |
| viceroy | kings representative in the colonies |
| Council of the indies | influenced colonies with viceroy |
| plantation | a huge estate, farm |
| pedro cabral | discovered Brazil |
| charter | like a contract |
| jamestown | established for profit, first english settlement in america & first to introduce slavery |
| plymouth | established for religious freedom |
| New France (Canada) | what did france call the area they settled in? |
| Quebec | main french settlement |
| down the mississippi river | spread into Louisiana by going . . . |
| only catholics were allowed to settle in New France | why did France have fewer people colonizing? |
| compact | an agreement among people, setting up rules that they agree to abide by, creating a type of government, a mini consitution |
| democracy | a type of government were the people rule |
| commercial revolution | a change in the way business is done, change in companies and trade |
| inflation | a rise in price, the value of money decreases, normal |
| capitalism | company decisions are being made by private individuals involved in business |
| entrepreneur | someone who owns a business |
| joint-stock company | where a group of investors put all of their money together to go into business |
| mercantilism | a new economic policy adopted in the 1500 to the early 1700s, government steps in, export more then import, to increase wealth |
| mayflower compact | written before they got off the ship, though it was important to stick together and have rules to survive |
| by land | how did goods reach Europe from Asia |
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