SSWH10/ Unit 3 Vocabulary Quiz

What term can be defined as "the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century?"

What term can be defined as "the transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America?"

What term can be defined as "the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas?"

What term can be defined as "the biggest deportation in history and a determining factor in the world economy in the 18^th century; Upwards of 12 million Africans were torn from their homes, deported to the American continents, and sold as slaves?"

What term can be defined as "the owning of human beings as property, able to be bought, sold, given, and inherited?"

What term can be defined as "the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves—so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade?"

What term can be defined as "a Chinese imperial eunuch, admiral, and Muslim, who was entrusted by the Chinese emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa?"

What term can be defined as "a small Spanish or Portuguese sailing vessel of the Middle Ages and later, usually lateen-rigged on two or three masts?"

What term can be defined as "(b. 1469 – d. 1524) was a Portuguese sailor, who was the first European who went to India (3 voyages) through the Cape of Good Hope, the southern end of Africa?"

What term can be defined as "an astronomical instrument for taking the altitude of the sun or stars and for the solution of other problems in astronomy and navigation: used by Greek astronomers from about 200 BCE and by Arab astronomers from the Middle Ages until superseded by the sextant?"