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Age of Exploration Key Terms - Coggle Diagram
Age of Exploration Key Terms
Bartolomeu Dias
Explorer and mariner from Portugal was named Bartolomeu Dias. He was the first European explorer to circle Africa's southern point in 1488.
Prince Henry the Navigator
In the early years of the Portuguese Empire as well as in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion, Prince Henry the Navigator played a significant role.
Christopher Columbus
Explorer Christopher Columbus (1451–1506) is known for his 1492 'discovery' of the New World of the Americas on board his ship Santa Maria.
Hernando Cortes
Hernán Cortés (1485-1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led the conquest of the Aztec Empire in Mexico from 1519.
Fransico Pizarro
Explorer, soldier, and conquistador Francisco Pizarro is best remembered for subduing the Incas and killing their leader, Atahuapla. He was born in Spain's Trujillo somewhere around 1474.
Zheng He
Zheng He was a Chinese mariner, explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral, and court eunuch during China's early Ming dynasty, and often regarded as the greatest sailor in Chinese History.
Vasco da Gama
The first European to travel by sea to India was a Portuguese adventurer named 1st Count of Vidigueira. He was the first to use an ocean route to connect Europe and Asia when he set off on his first trip to India through the Cape of Good Hope.
Colony
A colony is a territory subject to a form of foreign rule.
Treaty of Tordesillas
Along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa, the Portuguese Empire and the Spanish Empire divided the newly discovered lands outside of Europe.
conquistador
any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America, especially of Mexico and Peru, in the 16th century.
Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade, transatlantic slave trade, or Euro-American slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people, mainly to the Americas.
Triangle Trade
Triangular trade or triangle trade is trade between three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come.
Middle Passage
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
Columbian Exchange
The vast trade of plants, animals, precious metals, goods, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas is referred to as the Columbian exchange or Columbian interchange.
capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit
joint-stock company
a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
favorable balance of trade
A “favorable” balance of trade is one in which the value of domestic goods exported exceeds the value of foreign goods imported.
Mestizo
a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.
mercantilism
Mercantilism is an economic strategy intended to increase an economy's exports while reducing its imports. It advocates for currency manipulation, colonialism, tariffs, and subsidies on traded goods.