PVHS Unit 3 Vocab - Latin Am and European Exploration

Match the following

• A GRANT OF LAND MADE BY SPAIN TO SETTLERS, INCLUDING THE USE OF INDIGENOUS LABORERS

• Middle Passage

• THE ROUTE IN BETWEEN THE WESTERN PORTS OF AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS THAT CARRIED ENSLAVED AFRICANS.

• Triangular Trade

• A CROP THAT IS GROWN TO BE SOLD ON THE MARKET

• Encomienda

• LARGE FARM USED FOR GROWING FOOD OR CASH CROPS

• Plantation

• A NAME FOR THE FLOW OF TRADE TO AND FROM THE AMERICAS, EUROPE, & AFRICA

• Cash Crop

The compass helped aid European ____ in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

• Colonization

• Navigation

• Organization

• Maritime

Answer explanation

Navigation refers to sailing or traveling over a large strength of water or land.

INTRODUCTION OF NEW IDEAS OR SOMETHING NEW

• Invention

• Genius

• Innovation

• Revolutionary

Answer explanation

Important innovations like the compass and the astrolabe supported European exploration.

Creating alliances help governments

(a)   their power.

Answer explanation

Consolidate means to join or combines together into one thing.

Hernan Cortez was a ____ who was sent out to conquer new territory in the Americas.

• Adventurer

• Explorer

• Reconquista

• Conquistador

Answer explanation

Spanish conquistadors made first contact with the Aztec/Mexica and Incan peoples.

THE EXCHANGE OF PLANTS, ANIMALS, DISEASES, & TECHNOLOGIES BETWEEN THE AMERICAS & THE REST OF THE WORLD FOLLOWING COLUMBUS'S VOYAGES IS CALLED THE....

• Columbian Exchange

• American Exhcnage

• Columbian Trade

• American Trade

Answer explanation

The Columbian Exchange resulted in massive population changes all over the world.

The British (a)   was an important imperial power because they had colonies everywhere.

Answer explanation

An empire is a group of nations or peoples under one ruler or government.

THE ACT OF SENDING SETTLERS TO A NEW PLACE TO TAKE POLITICAL CONTROL OVER THE LAND AND THE PEOPLE LIVING THERE IS CALLED....

• Conquistadoring

• Imperialism

• Colonization

• Expanding

Answer explanation

Colonization of the Americas was dominated by the Spanish and Portuguese at first.

The resources of the (a)   are often exported.

Answer explanation

A colony is an area controlled politically by a more powerful country.

ECONOMIC PRACTICE WHERE GOVERNMENTS USE THEIR ECONOMIES TO INCREASE THEIR POWER; BENEFITS THE MOTHER COUNTRY, BUT NOT THE COLONY

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Industrialism

• Socialism

Answer explanation

Mercantilist countries like Spain wanted to control as much gold and silver as possible.