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- middle passage
- the journey of slaves from Africa to the Amercias, so called because it was the middle portion of the triangular trade route
- conquistadors
- a spanish conqueror of the Americas
- balance of trade
- the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time
- plantations
- a large agricultural estate
- Portugals capture of the spice trade
- Malay peninsula was a thriving port for spice trade for Albuquerque, control of Melaka would help destroy Arab control of the spice trade and provide the Portuguese with a way station on the route to Moluccas, then known as the Spice Islands
- mercantilism
- a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver
- Explain Columbus search for Asia
- Knowing that the Earth was round but not knowing how big its circumference was Columbus was sure he could reach Asia but instead sailed to Cuba and the Island of Hispaniola
- triangular trade
- a pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa and Asia and the American continents
- idenitfy the points of exploration for the Dutch, English, and French
- HEY!!! stop being lazy and look on page 190
- look on map as well India and Africa
- page 190 highlited in red
- identify the geographical regions of Africa
- sahara, sahel, Rain forest, Savanna, Steppe
- identify spains points of exploration
- one page 109 highlighted in yellow
- economic gain, religious conversion, glory and power
- the main motives for exploration
- Importance of spice trade
- Used to help preserve and flavor food
- identify the means in which
- any means your brilliant minds can think to think of
- Spain, Dutch Republic, England, Portigual
- the three major powers that participated in global exploration
- colony
- a settlement of people living in a new territory linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control
- cultural impact of spanish exploration and colonization
- in 1550 Spain had control over Northern Mexico and the colonization of Americas caused; forced labor starvation and disease among the native Americans