AP World History: Chapter 16 Vocab Flashcards

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