Unit 2 Review-Age of Exploration

A land controlled by another nation.

• Colony

• Mercantilism

• Northwest Passage

• Aztec

• Christopher Columbus

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

• Colony

• Mercantilism

• Northwest Passage

• Aztec

• Christopher Columbus

a nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean

• Colony

• Mercantilism

• Northwest Passage

• Aztec

• Christopher Columbus

central Americans that were known for being fierce warriors

• Colony

• Mercantilism

• Northwest Passage

• Aztec

• Christopher Columbus

an Italian explorer that was convinced that he could reach Asia by going westward through the Atlantic Ocean

• Colony

• Mercantilism

• Northwest Passage

• Aztec

• Christopher Columbus

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

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Caravels

• Charter

• Maya

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

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Caravels

• Charter

• Maya

ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind, and had rudders to improve steering

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Caravels

• Charter

• Maya

an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Caravels

• Charter

• Maya

central Americans that grew maize and built large cities

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Caravels

• Charter

• Maya