Unit 1 WH Vocabulary

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Spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another

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Cultural Diffusion

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15th century until the end of the 18th century exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.

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Age of Exploration/Discovery

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Who was a Chinese mariner explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral and court eunuch during China's early Ming Dynasty?

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Zheng He

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An ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasis connecting the East Europe and northern Africa

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Silk Roads

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Written in 1494, divided the newly discovered lands in the Americas between Portugal and Spain

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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National economic policy designed to maximize the trade of a nation and, historically, to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver. It was dominant in modernized parts of Europe from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

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Mercantilism

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Responsible for the early development of Portuguese exploration and maritime trade with other continents.

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, who recorded his travels on the Silk Road.

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Marco Polo

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15th-19th centuries involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly from Africa to the Americas, and then their sale there.

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Atlantic Slave Trade "The Middle Passage"

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The trade of plants, animals, diseases, technologies and more between the New and Old Worlds

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Colombian Exchange