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Age of Exploration Key Terms - Coggle Diagram
Age of Exploration Key Terms
Bartolomeu Dias
the first European explorer to sail around the southern coast of Africa successfully
Zheng He
He was a Chinese explorer who lead seven great voyages on behalf of the Chinese emperor.
Prince Henry the Navigator
Henry funded and planned expeditions to satisfy his curiosity, expand the territory and wealth of Portugal, and to spread Christianity.
Vasco da Gama
Vasco da Gama was best known for being the first to sail from Europe to India by rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope.
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas neatly divided the “New World” of the Americas between the two superpowers.
colony
It was a period of time when the European nations began exploring the world.
Fransico Pizarro
As a soldier, he served on the 1513 expedition of Vasco Núñez de Balboa, during which he discovered the Pacific Ocean.
Christopher Columbus
His voyages revealed two continents new to Europeans and initiated a period of rapid colonization, exploration, and exploitation in the Americas
inspired by rumors of gold and the existence of large, sophisticated cities in the Mexican interior, Hernán Cortés (1485–1547) was appointed to head an expedition of eleven ships and five hundred men to Mexico.
Hernando Cortes
Columbian Exchange
The process by which commodities, people, and diseases crossed the Atlantic
mercantilism
an economic philosophy in which a country seeks to amass as much raw wealth as possible, usually through trading, monopolizing resources, and strict regulation.
Conquistador
Iberian military adventurers who operated as the vanguard of empires in the 15th and 16th centuries by exploring areas of the world unknown to Europeans
Atlantic Slave Trade
The reason for this maritime movement was to obtain labour as the indigenous population of the New World had declined rapidly because of its lack of immunity against imported pathogens.
Triangle Trade
a system of exchange in which Europe supplied Africa and the Americas with finished goods, the Americas supplied Europe and Africa with raw materials
Middle Passage
the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade
capitalism
This system is based on investing money for profit.
joint-stock company
Joint-stock companies were created so that investors could pool their resources and negate personal risk.
favorable balance of trade
balance of trade is the difference in value between what a nation imports.
Mestizo
a term used in the colonial era to refer to a person of evenly mixed Indian and Hispanic ancestry.