Exploration Vocab!!

Treaty of Tordesillas

• 1. an economic system , that deals with money and wealth 

• 1.  sachem(intertribal leader) of a confederation of indigenous peoples that included the Wampanoag and Narragansett

• an agreement between the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal that defined where each could explore and claim lands

• 1. - based on the idea that a nation's wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and reducing imports.

Christopher Columbus

• a major corporation in business from 1602 until 1799

• 1. a navigator who explored the Americas under the flag of Spain 

• 1.  English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices.

• 1.  Portuguese explorer and navigator, and the first person to sail directly from Europe to India

Conquistador

• 1.  a system of forced labor imposed on indigenous workers by Spanish colonists

• 1.  occurs when a country exports more goods than it imports

• 1. a person who goes on a long journey often with a religious or moral purpose, and especially to a foreign land 

•  a person who is out to conquer new territory

Colony

• 1. the purchase, transportation, and sale of enslaved people from Africa.

• 1. a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land

• 1. the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War 

• 1. the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade

Hernando Cortes

• 1.  the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War 

• 1. a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico from 1519

• 1. the territory colonized by France in North America

• 1.  the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War 

Favorable Balance of Trade

• 1. a system of forced labor imposed on indigenous workers by Spanish colonists

• 1. the last ruler of the Inca Empire after the Spanish conquest

•  occurs when a country exports more goods than it imports

• 1. a person who goes on a long journey often with a religious or moral purpose, and especially to a foreign land 

Francisco Pizzaro

• 1. a business owned by its shareholders, who can buy and sell shares freely 

•  Spanish explorer who conquered Peru and, after assassinating Emperor Athahyalpa, conquered the Inca Empire and claimed its territories on behalf of the Spanish crown.

•   the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War

• 1. the last ruler of the Inca Empire after the Spanish conquest

Atahualpa

•  the last ruler of the Inca Empire after the Spanish conquest

• 1. former village near the mouth of the James River 

• 1.  a person who goes on a long journey often with a religious or moral purpose, and especially to a foreign land 

• 1. a system of forced labor imposed on indigenous workers by Spanish colonists

Mestizo

• 1. English Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to rid the Church of England of what they considered to be Roman Catholic practices.

• persons of European and Indigenous ancestry

• 1.  sachem(intertribal leader) of a confederation of indigenous peoples that included the Wampanoag and Narragansett

• 1. the purchase, transportation, and sale of enslaved people from Africa.

New France

• 1.  a trading route that supported the transport of imports and exports between Great Britain, Africa, the Caribbean, and America

•  former village near the mouth of the James River

• the territory colonized by France in North America

• 1. Portuguese marine and explorer