Ap World History Flashcards

8167656152	Caravel	small, easily steerable ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in their explorations	0
8167656153	Conquistador	Generic term for a Spanish conqueror of the Americas.	1
8167656154	Viceroy	a ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign.	2
8167656155	Encomedia System	Spanish slavery system	3
8167656156	Middle Passage	the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.	4
8167656157	maritime	connected with the sea, especially in relation to seafaring commercial or military activity.	5
8167656158	Bartholomew De Las Casas	First resident of the Chiapas was a Spanish historian and Dominican friar	6
8167656159	Prince Henry the Navigator	Sent others to explore for him, made very first explorer school, first person to value exploring	7
8167656160	God, Gold, Glory	the three main reasons for the European age of exploration	8
8167656161	Cape of Good Hope	the southern tip of Africa	9
8167656162	Bartholomeu Dias	Portuguese sailor who was first to sail around Africa's southern tip at the Cape of Good Hope	10
8167656163	Vasco da Gama	the first European to reach India by sea sailing around the tip of Africa.	11
8167656164	Malaccas	A Malaysian state and the location where spices were grown, for which Europe had a high demand.	12
8167656165	Ferdinand Magellan	Portuguese navigator in the service of Spain	13
8167656166	Joint Stock Company	A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits	14
8167656167	Mercantilism	belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.	15
8167656168	Commercial Revolution	• European economic change marked by guilds, banking, and capitalism	16
8167656169	Treaty of Tordesillas	set the boundary established in 1493 to define Spanish and Portuguese possessions in the Americas.	17