Age of Exploration Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards for the Age of Exploration test review.

Conquistadors

Spanish conquerors

Sugar

A valuable commodity that was a driving force behind exploration and colonization.

Triangular Trade

A transatlantic trade system involving Europe, Africa, and the Americas.

Tordesillas

A treaty that divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain.

Middle Passage

The forced transportation of enslaved Africans to the Americas.

Potato

A New World crop that became a staple food in Europe.

Sea Dogs

English privateers and pirates who raided Spanish ships and settlements.

Columbian Exchange

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Old World (Europe, Asia, and Africa) and the New World (the Americas).