Connecting The Columbian Exchange And Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

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Compass

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A device that tells direction.

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Mercantilism

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A governments efforts to gain more wealth than other rival nations. (Money = Power)

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Scurvy

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a condition caused by deficiency of ascorbic acid (vitamin C)

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Magellan

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Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain; he commanded an expedition that was the first to circumnavigate the world (1480-1521)

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Christopher Columbus

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Christopher Columbus (c. 1451 – 20 May 1506) was a navigator, colonizer, and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean led to general European awareness of the American continents in the Western Hemisphere

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Prince Henry

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important figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire, being responsible for the beginning of the European worldwide explorations.

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Hernan Cortez

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Cortes: Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)

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Francisco Pizarro

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Pizarro: Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)

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Marco Polo

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Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324)

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Bartolomeu Dias

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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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Portuguese explorer who found the sea route to India

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Cultural Diffusion

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The spread of a culture and/or an individual trait, and the factors that account for such a spread.

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Conquistador

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an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)

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Olmec

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a member of an early Mesoamerican civilization centered around Veracruz that flourished between 1300 and 400 BC

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Aztec

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a member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519

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Inca

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an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s

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Maya

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american indian people. characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy;

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Mulatos

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a person with one white parent and one black parent or a person who has both black ancestry and white ancestry.

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Native 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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person of pure Spanish descent born in Spain

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mestizos

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people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry.

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Criollos

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locally born people of pure or mostly Spanish ancestry.

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New World

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western hemisphere: the hemisphere that includes North America and South America

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Old World

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the regions of the world that were known to Europeans before the discovery of the Americas

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Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange was a dramatically widespread exchange of animal, plants, culture (including slaves), communicable diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western hemispheres

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Triangle Trade

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Trade between Americas, Africa, and Europe.

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Middle Passage

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Middle Passage refers to the forcible passage of African people from Africa to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade

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Transatlantic Slave Trade

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the transatlantic slave trade', was the trading, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World that occurred in and around the Atlantic Ocean. It lasted from the 16th to the 19th centuries.