World History Chapter 11 KJHS

The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.

• Atlantic slave trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

Africans transported to the Americas as part of a transatlantic trading network.

• Atlantic slave trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

The middle leg of the transatlantic trade triangle.

• Atlantic slave trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas.

• Atlantic slave trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

The son of Portugal’s king and the nation’s most enthusiastic supporter of exploration.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Pedro Álvares Cabral

• Prince Henry

• Vasco da Gama

Portuguese captain who ventured far down the coast of Africa in 1488, until he and his crew reached the tip.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Pedro Álvares Cabral

• Prince Henry

• Vasco da Gama

Portuguese explorer who reached the port of Calicut, on the southwestern coast of India in 1498.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Pedro Álvares Cabral

• Prince Henry

• Vasco da Gama

Portuguese explorer who reached the shores of modern-day Brazil.

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Pedro Álvares Cabral

• Prince Henry

• Vasco da Gama

Italian in the service of Portugal, who traveled along the eastern coast of South America and claimed that the land was not part of Asia, but a “new” world.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortés

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Led a Spanish expedition that arrived in the Philippines in 1521 by traveling west.

• Amerigo Vespucci

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Hernando Cortés

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa