Period 4 AP World History A Flashcards
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6303099407 | Atlantic System | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean Basin | 0 | |
6303099408 | Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. | 1 | |
6303099409 | Aztec Empire | mexican indian people who est. a great empire, centered on the valley of mexico and was overthrown by cortes along with disease in the 16th centuary | 2 | |
6303099410 | colonies | when a native country forms new land into settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. | 3 | |
6303099411 | colombian exchange | the exchange of goods between Europe and the Americas after Columbus' discovery | 4 | |
6303099412 | hernan cortes | 1485-1547, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico | 5 | |
6303099413 | Francisco Pizzaro | A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas | 6 | |
6303099414 | Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.) | 7 | |
6303099415 | Silver mining and sugar production in the americas | Europe needed a heavy supply of silver because it was the only thing that the Chinese were willing to trade, sugar want increased as they added it to tea and coffee | 8 | |
6303099416 | counter reformation | the reaction of the Roman Catholic Church to the Reformation reaffirming the veneration of saints and the authority of the Pope (to which Protestants objected) | 9 | |
6303099417 | Inca Empire | Largest Empire ever built in South America; and conquered by the european, Francisco Pizzaro | 10 | |
6303099419 | Mestizos | A person of mixed Native American and European ancestory | 11 |