Exploration Vocab

An economic pattern that imported and exported goods among Africa, the Americas, and New England

• Commercial Revolution

• Middle Passage

• Triangular Trade

• Colombian Exchange

Body of nonelected officials

• Merchants

• Bureaucracy

• Colonies

• Mainland States

The route by which slaves were shipped to the Americas from Africa

• Triangular Trade

• Colombian Exchange

• Mercantilism

• Middle Passage

Spanish explorers sent by Queen Isabella to the Americas to set up colonies

• Conquistadors

• Merchants

• Colonists

• Settlers

An economic policy where nations increased their wealth and power by obtaining large sums of gold and silver

• Exploration

• Colonization

• Mercantilism

• Imperialism

Colony

• A set up of people in a mother country

• A group of people living self sustained in their own country

• A new city in the Americas filled with natives

• People living in the new world, but linked with their mother country

Plantation

• Large estate in South America

• Type of banana found in South American jungles

• Homes where slaves lived and worked

• Plant where textiles are processed.

Mainland States

• Contiguous states that are together

• Chain of islands that are linked by name

• States that are islands, but not linked in name

• States that are part of a continent

Balance of trade

• Scales that are use to weigh goods

• Difference in value between imports and exports

• The amount of exports a country ships out

• The amount of good a country gains through exploration