Connecting The Columbian Exchange And Trans Atlantic Slave Trade

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Compass

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Navigational instrumental created in the 1300s that uses a magnetized piece of metal that points to the the north

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Mercantilism

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Economic theory stating that there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world and that in order to receive a larger share, one country has to take some wealth away from another country.

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Scurvy

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A disease caused by deficiency of vitamin C, characterized by spongy and bleeding gums, bleeding under the skin, and extreme weakness.

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Magellan

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Portuguese navigator. While trying to find a western route to the Moluccas (1519), Magellan and his expedition were blown by storms into the strait that now bears his name (1520). He named and sailed across the Pacific Ocean, reaching the Marianas and the Philippines (1521), where he was killed fighting for a friendly native king. One of his ships returned to Spain (1522), thereby completing the first circumnavigation of the globe

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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 (1451-1506)

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Prince Henry

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Prince Henry (1726–1802), son of King Frederick William I of Prussia

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Hernan Cortez

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

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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 (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

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Bartolomeu is a given name of Portuguese or Romanian origin. It is a cognate of Bartholomew. The name may refer to: *Bartolomeu Anania – a Romanian Orthodox monk who is currently the Metropolitan of Cluj, Alba *Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos *Bartolomeu de Gusmão *Bartolomeu Dias *Bartolomeu

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Vasco da Gama

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Portuguese navigator who led an expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497; he sighted and named Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean (1469-1524)

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Cultural Diffusion

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Cultural diffusion is the spreading of ideas or products from one culture to another.

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conquistador

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A conqueror, especially one of the 16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru.

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Olmec

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1. An early Mesoamerican Indian civilization centered in the Veracruz region of southeast Mexico that flourished between 1300 and 400 b.c., whose cultural influence was widespread throughout southern Mexico and Central America.
2. A member of any of various peoples sharing the Olmec culture.

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Aztec

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1. A member of a people of central Mexico whose civilization was at its height at the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century.
2. The Nahuatl language of the Aztecs.

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Inca

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1. a. A member of the group of Quechuan peoples of highland Peru who established an empire from northern Ecuador to central Chile before the Spanish conquest.
b. A ruler or high-ranking member of the Inca empire.
2. A member of any of the peoples ruled by the Incas

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Maya

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1. a. A member of a Mesoamerican Indian people inhabiting southeast Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, whose civilization reached its height around a.d. 300-900. The Maya are noted for their architecture and city planning, their mathematics and calendar, and their hieroglyphic writing system.
b. A modern-day descendant of this people.
2. Any of the Mayan languages, especially Quiché and Yucatec.

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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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Native Americans

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A member of any of the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere. The ancestors of the Native Americans are generally considered by scientists to have entered the Americas from Asia by way of the Bering Strait sometime during the late glacial epoch.

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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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A person of mixed racial ancestry, especially of mixed European and Native American ancestry

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Criollos

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A Spanish American of European, usually Spanish descent.

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New World

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The Western Hemisphere. The term was first used by the Italian historian Peter Martyr (1457-1526), whose De Rebus Oceanicis et Novo Orbe (1516) chronicled the discovery of America.

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Old World

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The Eastern Hemisphere. The term is often used to refer specifically to Europe

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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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Triangular trade, or triangle trade, is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. Triangular trade thus provides a method for rectifying trade imbalances between the above regions.

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Middle Passage

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(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography)
the History the journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the W coast of Africa to the Caribbean: the longest part of the journey of the slave ships sailing to the Caribbean or the Americas

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TransAtlantic Slave Trade

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The Atlantic slave trade, also known as 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