Chapter 2 Vocab!!
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- columbian exchange
- The exchange of goods and ideas between Native Americans and Europeans
- black death
- an epidemic that swept through europe from 1348 to 1350
- viceroy
- royal governor
- astrolabe
- instrument used to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars.
- reinassance
- "rebirth"
- commercial revolution
- a period of great change in the european economy
- capital
- money of property that is used to earn more money
- strait
- a narrow, winding sea passage
- convert
- change religious beliefs, or adopt a religious belief
- circumnavigate
- to sail completely around the world
- monopoly
- sole economic control of goods
- joint-stock companies
- businesses in which a group of people invest together
- northwest passage
- allowed ships to sail from the atlantic to the pacific
- caravel
- small ship thats was designed to move quickly and handle well