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Age of Exploration Key terms - Coggle Diagram
Age of Exploration Key terms
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean
Prince Henry the Navigator
Prince Henry the Navigator, was a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and in the 15th-century European maritime discoveries and maritime expansion.
Bartolomeu Dias
Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope.
Vasco da Gama
Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497
Zheng He
often regarded as the greatest sailor in Chinese History.
Hernando Cortes
led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of what is now mainland Mexico
Fransico Pizarro
A Spanish conquistador of the sixteenth century, who overthrew the rulers of the Incas and established the nation of Peru.
Mestizo
a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.
Atlantic Slave Trade
slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people
Triangle Trade
system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
Middle Passage
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
Columbian Trade
was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, precious metals
Capitalism
an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Joint stock
a business owned by its shareholders, who can buy and sell shares freely
mercantilism
belief in the benefits of profitable trading
Favorble balnce of trade
the difference in value between a country's imports and exports.