Mrs. Jacob - Explorers
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Italian | English |
|---|---|
 Vasco da Gama | sailed for Portugal; made several thousand % in profits on spices from India |
| John Cabot | sailed for England; explored the New England Coastline |
| Christopher Columbus | sailed for Spain; goal to find a new route to India, found North America |
| Amerigo Vespucci | writer whose name was used to identify America |
| Francisco Pizarro | sailed for Spain; out for gold and land; conquered the Inca Empire |
| Ferdinand Magellan | sailed for Spain; 1st circumnavigation; spread Christianity |
| Elcano | Finished Magellan's 1st Circumnavigation |
| Mainland States | part of a continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands |
| plantation | a large agricultural estate |
| portolani | detailed charts used to find distances between ports |
| bureaucracy | nonelective government officials |
| King Afonso | King of the Congo. He wrote a letter to the king of Portugal claiming the slave trade was corrupting the country and depopulating his people |
| conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the Americas |
| Ibo | this Nigerian society produced more slaves than practically any other on the African continent |
| colony | a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) |
| Mercantilism | policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver |
| Bartholomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who was the first European to sail around the southern tip of Africa; Cape of Good Hope |
| balance of trade | the difference between a country's total exports and total imports |
| Marco Polo | A Venetian trader that wrote about his journey in a book known as "The Travels" |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | In 1494 Spain and Portugal were disputing the lands of the new world, so the Spanish went to the Pope, and he divided the land of South America for them. Spain got the vast majority, the west, and Portugal got the east. |
| middle passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade |
| caravel | Porteguese sailing ship capable of long-distance exploration |
| triangular trade | A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa |
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