Chapter 17 - The Age of Exploration Review

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a ship invented by the Portuguese that made it possible to travel long distances

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caravel

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leaders in the Spanish conquest of the Americas

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conquistadors

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seventeenth-century economic theory that held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

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mercantilism

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Who sponsored the first Portuguese fleets to explore the west coast of Africa?

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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exchange of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas

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Columbian Exchange

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forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

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Middle Passage

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settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control

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colony

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Spanish and Portuguese officials who resided temporarily in Latin America

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peninsulares

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forced labor system used by the Spanish in colonial Latin America

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encomienda

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forced labor system used in colonial Peru to draft native workers to work in silver mines

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