WH Chapter 14
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cartography | map-making |
| scurvy | disease caused by lack of Vitamin C |
| circumnavigate | sail around |
| conquistadors | spanish conquerors |
| immunity | resistance, particularly from disease |
| viceroys | representative who ruled in the name of the king |
| encomiendas | right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area |
| Peons | peasant workers |
| Moluccas | spice islands |
| Prince henry the navigator | financed portugese voyages |
| Ceuta | 1st modern colony |
| Bartholomeu Dias | founded Cape of Good Hope |
| Cape of Good Hope | rounded tip of Africa |
| Vasco de Gama | reached India by going around Africa |
| 1492 | spain expelled jews |
| Ferninand and Isabella | spanish monarchs who wanted to protect lands in New World |
| Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria | Columbus' 3 ships |
| Pope Alexander VI | decided on Line of Demarcation and Treaty of Tourdesillas |
| Line of Demarcation | line dividing European world into 2 zones; split b/w spain and portugal |
| Treaty of Tourdesillas | agreed on proposed line of demarcation |
| Amerigo Vespucci | wrote journal accounts of new world |
| Vasco Nunez de Balboa | claimed south sea and shores for spain |
| Pacific Ocean | "south sea" |
| Ferninand Magellan | claimed Pacific ocean |
| Compass | magnetized technology allowing for circumnavigation to occur |
| Astrolabe | gave time and latitude |
| Caravel | small, fast maneuverable ship |
| compass, astrolabe, caravel, cartography | new technology allowing circumnavigation |
| cape town | 1st permanent European settlement in africa |
| Boers | settled cape town |
| Boers | dutch farmers |
| Dutch East India Company | wealthy, powerful, sovereign |
| sovereign | self ruling, independent of gov. |
| Philippines | named after King Philip II |
| hernan cortes | conquistador leader against aztec empire |
| tenochtitlan | capital of aztec empire |
| moctezuma | aztec emperor |
| Hernando de soto | wanted gold and route to China |
| Francisco Vasquez de Conorado | search for golden empires;FAIL |
| francisco pizarro | conquistador against incan empire |
| Inca Empire | peru, ecuador used to be the |
| atahualpa | incan emperor who was taken hostage by spaniards and later executed |
| Bartolome de las Casas | protested encomienda system |
| Peninsulares | top of social heirarchy -born on Iberian peninsula |
| Creoles | -born 2nd descendants of Spanish settlers |
| Mestizos | Native American/Euro descent of Spanish |
| mulattoes | african/european descent |
| Jacques River | discovered St lawrence river |
| 1607 | Jamestown, VA becomes it's1st perm. english settlement |
| pilgrims | english protestants who rejected Church of England |
| Mayflower Compact | self Gov agreement |
| John Winthrop | "city on a hill" |
| Triangular Trade | 3 leg journey from Europe -> africa --> New World -->Europe |
| Council of the Indies | governmental body in spain that made laws for new world spanish colonies |
| Philippines | where journey ended for the man who almost circumnavigated |
| Atahualpa | Emperor of Incan Empire |
| Moctezuma | Emperor of aztecs |
| Gold, glory and god | motivation fr explorers |
| Horse | Animal brought from old world that had impact |
| 1607 | Jamestown founded when? |
| Moctezuma | Hernan cortes takes down who? |
| Gold, route to asia, spices | Jacques sent to find what in new world? |
| Treaty of Paris | treaty ending french/indian war |
| audencias | advisory councils of spanish settlers who helped viceroys rule |
| outpost | location for trade |
| Malinche | ??? |
| Mercantillism | economic system based on strengthening a nation's economy by exporting more than importing esp. by exploiting overseas colonies |
| capitalism | economic system in which most businesses are owned privately and independently of gov't |
| Columbian Exchange | Global exchange of goods, animals, plants, and disease between old and new world |
| Middle Passage | 2nd leg of triangular trade; horror for africans |
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