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mrs. mcmicheal BHS
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History
9th Grade
10/29/2007

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Term
3 motives for exploration
Definition
-GOLD...wanted wealth-gold and silver

-GLORY...wanted fame and wanted to claim land for their own mother country

-GOD...wanted to spread Christianity to colonies
Term
amerigo vespucci
Definition
-went to central and south america
-from spain
-made four voyages
Term
john cabot
Definition
-1497
-went to Labordor
-england
Term
Christopher Colombus
Definition
-1492
-sailed west to try to find India
-landed in New World
-Spain
Term
West Indies and Caribbean
Definition
-Explorers thought Caribbean was India...."west Indies"

-supplied sugar cane and molasses
Term

Demarcation Line

Definition
-split world between Spain and Portugal

Spain got east, Portugal got west
-caribbean             -SPICE ISLANDS
-new world             -Africa
Term

Francisco Pizzarro

Definition
-1532
-from Spain
-conquered Incas in Peru
Term
cortez
Definition
conquered aztecs in Mexico

from Spain
Term
Magellan
Definition
-1519
-Spain
-circumnavigated world
Term
Mercantilism
Definition
an economic system that relies on a nations stockpile of gold and silver

more exports than imports....having a favorable balance of trade
Term
balance of trade
Definition
more exports than imports
Term
triangular trade
Definition

TRADE ROUTES THAT WENT FROM...

africa to new world to europe
OR
africa to caribbean to new world

OR

caribbean to new world to europe

Term

middle passage

Definition
part of triangular trade from africa to new world

-slaves on slave boats had to undertake long, hard journey
Term
Who was first?
who took it over from them?
who controlled the spice islands?
Definition

Portugal was first

Spain took it over from them

Holland (the dutch) took it from them

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