6103632701 | Vasco de Balboa | Adventurer who established the first mainland Spanish colony in the New World | 0 | |
6103639640 | Treaty of Paris | Agreement signed by Britain and France in 1763 giving control of Canada to Britain | 1 | |
6103639641 | Dutch East India Company | Netherlands' trading company that held a government monopoly to trade in designated regions | 2 | |
6103642272 | Core nations | Dominant countries in New World trade and acquisition | 3 | |
6103645953 | Calcutta | British trading station giving them access to great wealth in the Ganges Valley | 4 | |
6103647981 | New France | The first substantial European settlement in Canada | 5 | |
6103651339 | British East India Company | English trading company that held a government monopoly to trade in designated regions. | 6 | |
6103653369 | Cape of Good Hope | Southernmost tip of Africa, first navigated by the Portuguese in 1488 | 7 | |
6103653370 | Cape Colony | Dutch trading settlement formed to supply Dutch ships on the way to Asia. | 8 | |
6103661240 | Ferdinand Magellan | Leader of the Spanish expedition to become the first to circumnavigate the world | 9 | |
6103670796 | Mestizos | People of mixed European and Native American blood | 10 | |
6103670797 | Boers | Dutch farmers who settled in South Africa | 11 | |
6103673984 | Lepanto | Spanish naval defeat of the Ottoman Empire that ended any Muslim threat on the Mediterranean | 12 | |
6103673985 | Christopher Columbus | Italian navigator who set sail westward for Spain in an attempt to reach India | 13 | |
6103678800 | Seven Years' War | Worldwide colonial struggle between two great powers, Britain and France | 14 | |
6103678801 | Mercantilism | Trading policy enacted to restrict trade options of colonial acquisitions and benefit colonizing states | 15 | |
6103681346 | Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Incan people of Peru to become its first governor | 16 |
AP World History: Chapter 16 Vocab Flashcards
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