Title Age of Discovery Flashcards
conquistador
a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
colony
country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.
mercantilism
belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
balance of trade
The commercial balance or net exports (sometimes symbolized as NX), is the difference between the monetary value of exports and imports of output in an economy over a certain period, measured in the currency of that economy.
the compass
A compass is an instrument used for navigation and orientation that shows direction relative to the geographic “cardinal directions”, or “points”.
joint stock company
a company whose stock is owned jointly by the shareholders.
triangular trade
a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
columbian exchange
The Columbian Exchange or Grand Exchange was the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries, related to European colonization and trade after Christopher Columbus’ 1492 voyage.
middle passage
the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
trady of tordesillas
The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed at Tordesillas on June 7, 1494, and authenticated at Setúbal, Portugal, divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and the Crown of Castile, along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the west coast of Africa.
