Exploration

A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

• Amerigo Vespucci
• Vasco de Gama
• Triangular Trade
• Treaty of Tordesillas

A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.

• Joint-stock company
• Vasco de Gama
• Amerigo Vespucci
• Middle Passage

A practice, primarily during the eighteenth century, in which European ships transported slaves from Africa to Caribbean islands, molasses from the Caribbean to Europe, and trade goods from Europe to Africa.

• Prince Henry
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Pizarro

(16th-19th centuries) Captured Africans were transported across the Atlantic under horrific conditions to labor in the Americas in mines and plantations.

• Favorable balance of trade
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Triangular Trade
• Vasco de Gaman

Spanish conquistador that defeated the Incan empire. Although the Incan King, met his demands for rooms filled with gold & silver for the King's release. The King was strangled.

• Cortes
• Pizarro
• Capitalism
• Caravel

First man to led an expedition that circumnavigated the globe.

•  Pizarro
• Caravel
• Cortes
• Magellan

Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain.

• Colonies
• Cortes
• Joint-stock
• Conquistadors

An economic system based on private ownership and the investment of resources,such as money, for profit.

• Mercantilism
• Caravel
• Capitalism
• Cortes

Territories that are controlled by other countries. The territory is often settled by people from the controlling countries.

• Cortes
• Caravel
• Exploration
• Colonies

Segment of the forced journey that captured Africans made from Africa to America throughout the 1600's; it consisted of the dangerous trip across the Atlantic Ocean; many slaves perished on this segment of the journey.

• Caravel
• Pizarro
• Triangular Trade
• Middle Passage