Unit 4 vocab WHAP

Vocabulary for chapters 7 ,8 ,& 9

Compass

magnetic needle used to find north

caravel

small speedy ship

lateen sail

triangular sail

fluyt

ship with maximum cargo space

portugueses maritime technology

astrolabe, compass, mapping

Arawak

people in the Caribbean

Henry the navigator

Portuguese Prince, Funded African exploration

Gold coast

West Africa with crazy gold exports

Bartolomeu Dias

first person to sail around the tip of africa

Vasco DeGama

first Portuguese person to reach India

christopher colombus

sailed and found the americas

Ferdinand Magellan

first to Portuguese sail around the world

conquistadors

spanish conqorers

Hernan Cortes

defeated the Aztecs

Moctezuma II

Died while Hernan held him hostage

Atahualpa

Last ruling Inca emperor. He was executed.

Francisco Pizarro

led the conquest of Inca empire

New france

Canida, colony in North America

Sir Frances Drake

famous Englishman for going around the globe

Dutch East India Company

Had a monopoly over indian trade

Columbian echange

stuff to and from america

pilgrims

plymouth christians

puritans

God predstined souls before birth

Iroquois Confederacy

alliance of native American tribes

coureurs de bois

Fur traders, mixed ethnicity

Oman

Arab state in Masqat

Swahili

Bantu language, spoken in East Africa

batavia

headquarters of dutch east india company

Postosí

Silver Mines

encomienda

Getting authority over amerindians, Where you have to christianize them.

Chartered Companies

private investors to set up new world

Dutch west India company

Trading company of the Dutch

Indentured Servants

Free travel to America in return for work

mercantilism

policies designed to promote trade

joint stock company

a business that sold shares

stock exchange

a place where shares are bought and sold

royal African company

English company for African trade

Acheh Sultanate

Muslim kingdom in northern Sumatra

house of burgesses

eleected assembaly in virginia

Atlantic Circuit

Triangle Trade

middle passage

slaves from africa to america

Bartolomé de las Casas

bishop of Chiapas, advocated for Indians

smallpox

disease spread by Variola Virus

measles

respiratory virus

malaria

ancient disease existing for thousands of years

Tupac Amaru II

Incan Aristocracy (nobility)

Plantocracy

Rich West-Indians, owned slaves

driver

made sure slaves did their job

metacom's war

devastated new England. Wapanong & Plymouth beef

Pueblos rebolt

indian uprising against spanish

maroons

run away slaves

aboslutism

monarch not bounded by the law

creoles

European born in the new world

mestizos

mixed amerindans & European

manumission

Freeing an enslaved person

Tokugawa Shogunate

last three shogunates of japan

Bourgeoisie

middle class / well of europeans

gentry

land holding family. Just below aristocracy

Little ice age

cool climate in the 1590s

deforestations

removing trees