Unit 3: COLONIZATION AND GLOBAL EMPIRES

Spanish adventurers who led conquests in the Americas

• Explorer

• Conquistador

• Matador

• Sailor

Conquered the Aztecs in Mesoamerica

• Pizarro

• Motezuma

• Columbus

• Cortes

Conquered the Incan empire

• Pizarro

• Cortes

• Montezuma

• Columbus

 Aztec emperor

• Columbus

• Cortes

• Pizarro

• Montezuma

The first people that Columbus encountered

• Pizarro

• Montezum

• Taino

• Cortes

Company that was successful during the Age of Colonization that changed the way business would be run forever. They were the first multinational corporation

• Amazon

• Dutch East India Company

• Dutch South India Company

• Dutch West India Company

An economic practice of European colonial powers that used colonies for the benefit of the mother country

• Capitalism

• Mercantilism

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

The trip enslaved people were forced to take from Africa to the Americas.

• Middle Passage

• Southern Passage

• African Passage

• Forced Passage

The trade of raw materials from the Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from from Europe to Africa and slaves from Africa to the Americas.

• Rectangular Trade

• Octogonal Trade

• Circular Trade

• Triangular Trade

The transfer of plants, animals, diseases and people between the Americas and Asia, Africa and Europe

• Mercantilism

• Disease Exchange

• African Exchange

• Columbian Exchange