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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
