AOD
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- Cartier
- Explorer who wanted to find a North West passage to the Pacific but finds and claims the St. Lawrence river for France
- Champlain
- Explorer who established Quebec
- Navigation Act
- Mercantile Laws that regulated supplies that went in out of colonies
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Founded School of Navigators in Lisbon
- End of serfdom
- Social cause of the AOD
- Confucianism
- Belief that China was pure and the outside world was corrupt
- Ponce De Leon
- Explorer who looked for Fountain of Youth but found and claimed Spanish Florida instead (St. Augustine)
- Balboa
- Explorer who established first spanish colony in central america (Panama)
- Eurocentric Perspective
- The perspective that whites were superior to everyone else
- Manchu invasions
- Caused China to end their AOD and isolate themselves in order to protect their country
- Cortes
- Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
- Raw materials
- Goods from americas such as molasses
- Middle passage
- Journey that brought slaves from Africa to the Americas
- 7 years war
- War fought between England and France over control of India in which the French lost
- Cartography
- Map making
- Dias
- Explorer who reached Cape of Good Hope but was threatened with a mutiny and was forced back to Portugal (1488)
- Mercator Projection
- A map that showed distorted land masses with flat lines of latitude and longitude
- Mercantilism
- Economic philosophy that stressed that wealth was limited and a country's wealth was based on the amount of bullion it had
- Mestizos
- Spanish and Native American offspring
- Tokugawa Shogunate
- Warrior based feudel government in Japan
- Mughal Empire
- Islamic empire that established control over a "divided" India
- Penninsulares
- Pure Spanish people who were appointed by the king to have political authority over everyone in their colonies
- La Salle
- Explorer that traveled down the Mississippi River and founded New Orleans
- Marquette and Joliet
- Explorers who claimed the Ohio River Valley for France and found the Mississippi River
- Commercial Revolution
- Caused by the fall of Constantinople which ended unlimited trade
- population outlet and mercantile colonies
- Purpose of British Empire in America
- Macao
- Portugese trade port in China
- Manufactured goods
- Goods from Europe such as rum
- Caravels
- Ships with V-shaped hulls, triangular sails, and a rudder to the rear of the ship
- Rajjahs
- local princes that worked against the surrounding princes in hopes of strengthening their position in India
- Arabic Traders
- Group that diffused cartography and created Trans-Saharan Trade Route
- 13 colonies
- British mercantile colonies in America that served as population outlets
- Mercantile colonies
- Colonies whos only purpose was to serve the mother country
- Native Americans
- Indigenous people
- Canton
- English trade port in China
- Creoles
- Pure Spanish people born in Americas who had economic control over the haciendas
- Formation of nation-states
- Political cause of the AOD
- Magellan
- Spanish sailor who was the first to circumnavigate the globe and establish the Phillipines as a Spanish colony
- Mulattoes
- African and White offspring
- Slaves
- Brought from Africa to work plantations
- Qing Dynasty
- Dynasty that took over after Manchu invasions and Ming Dynasty
- Astrolabe
- Tool that helped sailors navigate using the stars
- Favorable Balance of Trade
- When a country had more exports than imports (more money came in than spent)
- Pizarro
- Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas
- Joint-Stock Company
- A group of investors who shared the risk of a business venture
- Bullion
- Precious metals such as gold and silver
- Trade ports
- Purpose of the French Empire in America
- Vasco De Gama
- Explorer who created first direct route to India (1498)
- Triangular Trade
- The exchange of raw materials, manufactured goods, and slaves from the Americas, Europe, and Africa to make profit
- tobacco, indigo, rice
- Three major cash crops grown in America
- Encomienda System
- System in which the conquistadors were "trustees" over the indigenous people
- Mansa Musa
- Legend who owned 2,000 slaves with each carrying a 5ilb. block of gold; caused European interest in the African Slave Trade
- compass
- Tool that found directions (north, south, east, west); from China
- Cabral
- Explorer who accidently discovers Brazil and claims it as a Portugese colony
- British Canada
- Area founded by Hudson Bay Company that belonged to the British