Age of Exploration Vocab & Review

Study and practice of map making

• Middle Passage

• Smallpox

• Cartography

• Oceanography

Small, light and fast ships created by the Portuguese that started exploration in the 1400s

• Colonization

• Encomienda System

• Columbian Exchange

• Caravel

Describes the exchange of products, diseases and crops exchanged from the Western and Eastern Hemispheres

• Columbian Exchange

• Triangular Trade

• Colonization

• Middle Passage

Spread of cultural elements from one area or group of people to another by contact

• Cartography

• Cultural Diffusion

• Smallpox

• Triangular Trade

The horrific journey of enslaved Africans to the Americas as part of the slave trade

• Triangular Trade

• Middle Passage

• Columbian Exchange

• Caravel

Spanish explorers sent to take over lands in the Americas

• Smallpox

• Triangular Trade

• Conquistador

• Colony

One of the most deadly diseases on the planet that lead to 90% of Native American population to die after European arrival

• Colony

• Smallpox

• Mercantilism

• Technology

Atlantic economic system between Europe, Africa and North America where products, raw materials and slaves were traded between continents

• Triangular Trade

• Smallpox

• Columbian Exchange

• Cultural Diffusion

System of forced labor in the Spanish colonies of Latin America

• Joint-Stock Company

• Colonization

• Colony

• Encomienda System

Large companies backed by private investors that were sponsored by European empires to explore and conquer territories

Ex. British East India Company, Dutch East India Company

• Encomienda System

• Joint-Stock Company

• Colonization

• Technology