Unit 3 Vocab: Age of Exploration & Globalization

Interaction and integration of people around the World

• Ethnocentrism

• expedition

• Global Interdependence

• Globalization

The reliance of people and countries around the world on one another for goods and services

• Mercantilism

• Astrolabe

• Globalization

• Global Interdependence

A journey by a group of people with a particular purpose

• Cash Crop

• Cacique

• route

• expedition

Direction or path one travels to get from point A to point B

• route

• Encomienda System

• Colony

• Exotic Goods

Historical trade route(s) between the East and West of the Old World

• Triangular Trade

• Conquistador

• The Middle Passage

• Silk Road

Rare items or resources from far away places, often expensive due to availability & distance

• Cacique

• Astrolabe

• Plantation

• Exotic Goods

The art and science of making maps

• Triangular Trade

• Cartography

• Ethnocentrism

• Colony

  
  

An area settled and controlled by people from a country far away

• Globalization

• Silk Road

• expedition

• Colony

Transfer of plants, animals, culture and diseases between the New & Old Worlds after 1492

• Cash Crop

• Triangular Trade

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Columbian Exchange

Large tract of land where slaves or workers grow certain crops meant to be sold for profit

• Cash Crop

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Colony

• Plantation