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