Connecting The Columbian Exchange And Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

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Compass

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A device that points North, south, east and weast

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Mercantilism

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A governments efferts to gain more weath then rival nations

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Scurvy

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disease resulting from a vitamin C deficiency

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Magellan

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(c1480-1521), Portuguese explorer and navigator

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Christopher Columbus

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(1451-1506) Italian explorer and navigator who discovered America in 1492, Columbus, Cristobal Colon

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Prince Henry

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born 1984) known as Prince Harry, second son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and currently third in line to the throne of the United Kingdom

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Hernan Cortez

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(; 1485 – December 2, 1547) was a Spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. Cortés was part of the generation of Spanish colonizers that began the first phase of the Spanish colonization of the Americas.

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Francisco Pizarro

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Spanish explorer and conquistador, conqueror of Peru

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Marco Polo

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(1254-1324) Italian merchant and explorer from Venice, one of the first European explorers to travel across Asia

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Vasco Da Gama

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c1460-1524) Portuguese explorer who discovered the sea route from Portugal to India

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Conquistador

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one of the sixteenth century conquerors of Peru and Mexico

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Olmec

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were a Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, near the modern-day cities of Veracruz and Tabasco.

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Aztec

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n. member of an ancient empire situated in present day Mexico

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Inca

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member of a group of South American Indians that ruled Peru before the coming of Spaniards in the sixteenth century

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Maya

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n. member of an advanced pre-Columbian civilization in southern Mexico and Guatemala; modern-day descendant of the Mayan people; any of the languages spoken by the Mayas

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Mulatos

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n. mulatto, person who is both Negro and Caucasian; octoroon, offensive term for a person of mixed race who has one-eighth Black ancestry

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Native Americans

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indigenous peoples living within the United States, equivalent in some instance to the term American Indian but in others including:

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Peninsulares

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was a Spanish-born Spaniard or mainland Spaniard residing in the New World,

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Cultural Diffusion

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to describe the spread of cultural items—such as ideas, styles, religions, technologies, languages etc.—between individuals

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Bartolomeu Dias

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n. (c1450-1500) Portuguese explorer who discovered the Cape of Good Hope

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Mestizos

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n. person of mixed racial background (in Spain or Mexico)

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Criollos

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n. native or citizen of a Latin American country; domestic animal of Latin American breed; cocoa of extremely high quality