Ap Euro Ch. 3: Discovery Of New World

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Christopher Columbus

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Expert seaman, discovered New World in 1492. Enslaved natives and brought back word of fields of gold and mass slaves

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Vasco de Gama

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First to go around Cape of Africa to India, returns with 6,000% profit due to force trade.

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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Establishes School of Navigation, demonstrated that strong centralized gov. could finance big risky voyages

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Magellan

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First to circumnavigate the Earth

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Ferdinand and Isabella

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Funds Columbus' journey, allow other voyages to occur.

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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Europeans give acres to Spain West and Portugal East.

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MesoAmerica

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Basically Latin America that the Spanish discovered and conquered through force

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Aztec

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Band of independent states paying tribute to an Aztec Emperor. Conquered by Spanish.

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Tenochtitlan

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Aztec capital, conquered by Cortes and Spanish.

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Cortes

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Spanish General and explorer, conquered Aztecs through guns germs and steel

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Inca

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Advanced civilization in Peru (Andes mountains) conquered by Spanish

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Guns Germs and Steel

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Tactic used to gain control over New World. Guns provided best military weapon around. Germs plagued the civilization and was most effective. Steel provided armor that tribes could not penetrate.

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The Middle Passage

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Passage used from Africa to New World for sole reason of transporting slaves.

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Triangular Trade

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Trade going from Europe to Africa to the Americas then back to Europe

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Colombian Exchange

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an exchange of products and slaves between Europe Africa and the Americas

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Joint- stock exchange

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A group of investors pooling their money into a company in hopes of earning revenue from that company. The JSE set forth a basis of stocks and a global economy.

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The Dutch

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one of the dominant forces of the world. set up global trade through banks and joint stock exchanges, and is first to establish national bank

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Encomienda

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Grant of native labor to European. put it place by Isabella, it made the native life a little easier

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Pizzaro

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Conquerer of Incan empire, used disease and guns. Set capital at Lima for Spanish empire

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Mercantilism

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gov finances business to increase taxes and provide public services. boomed European economy

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Hacienda

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a plantation or price of landed owned by the spanish