AP World 4.1-4.3

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primogeniture laws

the oldest son inherits the entirety or the majority of a family's estate, property, and titles

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Omani-European rivalry

A trade competition in the Indian Ocean where Omani traders challenged the European (specifically Portuguese) forts and control of strategic ports.

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cartography

mapmaking, knowledge of current and wind patterns also improved navigation

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astronomical chart

Any map of the stars and galaxies

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maritime empires

Empires based in sea travel like Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, France, and Holland

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mercantilism

an economic theory where a nation's power is directly tied to its wealth, measured by its accumulation of gold and silver

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trading post empire

A type of empire established by the Portuguese in the Indian Ocean to control commerce by building forts and not conquering large territories.

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Manila

Became a Spanish commercial center, located in Philippine Islands

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Prince Henry the Navigator

Portuguese monarch who sponsored seafaring expeditions to the East and Africa.

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Quebec

Town and trading post established in 1608

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New France

The French colony in North America

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Jamestown

the first permanent English settlement in North America

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New Amsterdam

Community made when the Dutch claimed the Hudson River Valley and the island of Manhattan

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Christopher Columbus

Discovered the NEW WORLD, voyages connected people across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Bartholomew Diaz

Explorer who sailed around the southern tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope) in 1488.

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Vasco Da Gama

Explorer who sailed farther east than Diaz, landing in India in 1498.

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Ferdinand Magellan

Died on the voyage in the Philippine Islands in 1522

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northwest passage

A theoretical water route through or around North America that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

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Jacques Cartier

French explorer and sailer, claimed part of what is now Canada for France

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Samuel de Champlain

French explorer who founded Quebec and the colony of New France.

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John Cabot

an Italian explorer who, under the commission of England's King Henry VII, made one of the earliest English voyages to North America in 1497

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Henry Hudson

Explorer who sailed for the Dutch and English searching for the northwest passage; claimed the Hudson River valley for the Dutch.

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galleons

Heavily armed Spanish Ships

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smallpox

a highly contagious viral disease that caused a devastating pandemic, especially after being introduced to the Americas by Europeans, where it wiped out an estimated 90% of the Indigenous population

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horse

Domesticated animal the Europeans brought to the Americas, allowed for easier stuff

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maize

it’s fucking corn, europeans took it home from Mesoamericans

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cacao

chocolate, europeans took it home from Mesoamericans

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okra

a plant with edible seed pods that originated in West Africa and was brought to the Americas through the transatlantic slave trade

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rice

a staple food crop whose global spread, especially its introduction to the Americas via the Columbian Exchange, had a major economic and social impact.

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sugarcane

a tall, perennial grass cultivated for its sugar-rich juice

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conquistadores

spanish soliders

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creole

a new language created by enslaved West Africans who blended their native languages and grammar with the European colonizers' languages

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gumbo

Popular in South U.S. with roots in African Cooking

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African Diaspora

Dispersion of Africans out of Africa

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Columbian Exchange

the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World

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transatlantic slave trade

a system of human trafficking from the 16th to 19th centuries in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to the Americas to provide labor for plantations and mines

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cash crop

crops that are grown for sale

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Engenhos

engines in portugeues