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Causes of the Age of Exploration (What were they looking for and why did they change their route) |
Goods from the far east(India) Ottomans blocked them, so they have to go around Africa, then Columbus hit the Americas. |
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Which two countries were the first two powers to explore new lands? |
Portugal and Spain |
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Who is Prince Henry the Navigator? |
Changes how Europe thinks about the world. Starts a school for explorers. |
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Who is Vasco de Gama? |
Traveled across the Indian ocean to an Indian port for the Portuguese. Sails around Africa. |
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Define Imperialism |
Political system i which the European countries colonized regions around the world because of mercantilism. A.K.A. Colonialism. |
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What is an encomienda system |
Economic system and Natives are treated horrible and exploited. |
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Define Columbian Exchange (what is it, who is involved, what is involved) |
Exchange of Food/Animals/Disease between Old & New World. |
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Define Trans-Atlantic slave trade (who, where, and why) |
Slaves taken from Western Africa to East coast of the Americas.(Toward Brazil) Took millions of slaves. |
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What is Mercantilism? Who does is benefit and how does it work? |
when colonies sold gold, silver to the mother country and the mother country sold gold and silver back to the colonies. The country that owns the colonies. |
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Spanish Colonies in the Americas Location? |
Mexico, Central America and South West U.S. |
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Spanish Colonies in the Americas political social economic |
Political: Used Imperialism & Viceroys Social: Social Structure Economic: Used Mercantilism & Encomienda |
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Name and define the social structure |
Peninsulares: People born in Spain. Creoles: People of European descent born in the colonies. Mestizos: Mixed Native & European descent. Mulattoes: Mixed African & European descent. Slaves and all Native Americans and people of African descent. |
