Age of Explore Vocab

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  1. 2. Dom Henrique of Portugal, Duke of Viseu, better known as ____ _____ the Navigator, was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion
  2. 4. involved the transportation by slave traders of various enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas. The slave trade regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage, and existed from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
  3. 5. (1st Count of Vidigueira) was a Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India by way of Cape of Good Hope was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and therefore, the West and the Orient.
  4. 10. trade between three ports or regions. It thus provides a method for rectifying trade imbalances between the above regions.
  5. 11. signed in Tordesillas, Spain on 7 June 1494, and authenticated in Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly-discovered lands outside Europe between the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
  6. 12. a form of foreign rule; a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country
  7. 13. founded in 1607, it was the first successful permanent English settlement in what would become the United States. The settlement thrived for nearly 100 years as the capital of the Virginia colony; it was abandoned after the capital moved to Williamsburg in 1699 (famously known for its citizens resorting to cannibalism).
  8. 14. a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
  9. 15. the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492
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  1. 1. a theater of the Seven Years' War, which pitted the North American colonies of the British Empire against those of the French, each side being supported by various Native American tribes.
  2. 2. were the English settlers who came to North America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony in what is today Plymouth, Massachusetts.
  3. 3. an economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy. It promotes imperialism, colonialism, tariffs and subsidies on traded goods to achieve that goal
  4. 6. The Columbian Exchange caused population growth in Europe by bringing new crops from the Americas and started Europe's economic shift towards it. Colonization disrupted ecosytems, bringing in new organisms like pigs, while completely eliminating others like beavers.
  5. 7. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade
  6. 8. a Portuguese mariner and explorer. In 1488, he became the first European navigator to round the southern tip of Africa and to demonstrate that the most effective southward route for ships lay in the open ocean, well to west of the African coast.
  7. 9. an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas.