Connecting The Columbian Exchange And The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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New World

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one of the names used for the Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas. Discovered by Eurpoean explorers in the late 15th century.

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Old World

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consist of those parts of earth known to classical antiquity and the European middle ages. it is used in the context and contrast with the New World.

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Columbian Exchange

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was a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture and human population(including slaves).

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Triangle Trade

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indicating trade among three ports or regions.

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Middle Passage

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was a stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa were taken into the new world, as part of the alantic slave trade.

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TransAtlantic Slave Trade

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refers to the trade in slave that took place across the atlantic ocean from the sixteenth to the ninteenth centery

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Compass

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navigational instrument for finding directions.

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Mercantilism

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an economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all the nations commercial interests.

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Scurvy

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a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid.

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Magellan

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a portageus explorer who became the first explorer to sail from the atlantic ocean to the pacific ocean.

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Christopher Columbus

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Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China

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Prince Henry

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Set up schools to teach people how to explore.

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Hernan Cortez

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Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

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Francisco Pizarro

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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima

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Marco Polo

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Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan

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Bartelemeou Dias

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a nobleman of the Portuguese royal household, was a Portuguese explorer who sailed around the southernmost tip of Africa in 1488, the first European known to have done so.

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Vasco Da Gama

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was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful in the European Age of Discovery and the commander of the first ships to sail directly from Europe to ...

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Cultural Diffuision

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The process of spread of a feature or trend from one place to another over time

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Conquistador

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is the term widely used to refer to the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and adventurers who brought much of the Americas under the control of Spain in the 15th through the 19th centuries following ...

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Olmec

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The Olmec were an ancient Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco

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Aztec

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The Aztec people were certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who dominated large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the late post-classic period in Mesoamerican chronology

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Inca

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the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

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Maya

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a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar"
a family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya

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Mulatos

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Mulatto denotes a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry. The term may be perceived as pejorative in some cultures and situations. Its current usage varies greatly

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Natvie Americans

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The indigenous peoples of the Americas are the pre-Columbian inhabitants of North, Central, and South America, their descendants, and many ethnic groups who identify with those peoples.

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Peninsulares

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In the colonial caste system of Spanish America, a peninsular was a Spanish-born Spaniard or mainland Spaniard residing in the New World, as opposed to a person of full Spanish descent born in the Americas (known as criollos). ...

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Mestizos

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Mestizo is a colonial Spanish and Portuguese (Mestiço) term that was used in the Spanish Empire and Portuguese Empire in Latin America to refer to people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry.

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Criollos

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The Criollos (singular: Criollo) were a social class in the caste system of the overseas colonies established by Spain in the 16th century, especially in Latin America, comprising the locally born people of pure or mostly Spanish ancestry.