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Age of Discovery Vocabulary
Amerigo Vespucci
Aztecs
Christopher Columbus
Columbian Exchange
Ferdinand and Isabella
Ferdinand Magellan
Francis Drake
Francisco Pizarro
Hernando Cortez
Incas
Indigenous
Jacques Cartier
Joint stock company
Mercantilism
Middle Passage
Prince Henry the Navigator
Sea Dogs
Smallpox
Triangular trade
Vasco da Gama
Originating in a particular
region, native
Portuguese, first to
circumnavigate, or sail
around the world
Central Mexico,
conquered by Cortes
English navigator,
circumnavigated the world,
explored West Coast of
Americas
English pirates who
attacked Spanish ships,
slave trade from Africa,
Francis Drake
Spanish conquistador
who conquered the
Incas
the global exchange of
goods, ideas, plants and
South American empire,
animals, and disease that
conquered by Pizarro
began with Columbus’
exploration of the Americas
colonial trade routes
among Europe and its
colonies, the West
Indies, and Africa in
which goods were
exchanged for slaves
the leg of the triangular
trade route on which
slaves were transported
from Africa to the
Americas
Spanish conquistador
who defeated the
Aztecs and conquered
Mexico
highly contagious disease,
leaves permanent pits or
scars, transported by
Europeans to Americas
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Italian merchant,
adventurer, and explorer
after whom America was
named
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Portuguese navigator,
French navigator,
traveled around Cape of
claiming parts of Canada
Good Hope to the west
for France
coast of India
For Portugal, discovered
King and Queen of Spain,
Italian, wanted to reach
and claimed Madeira and sponsored exploration to
the East Indies, found
Azores islands to the W and
the New World by
Americas
SW of Portugal
Christopher Columbus
an association of
policy by which a nation
individuals in a business
sought to export more
enterprise with
than it imported in order
transferable shares of stock to build its supply of gold
and silver