Colombian Exchange Vocab

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Conquistador

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Name for the spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s

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Colombian Exchange

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Columbus started A global exchange Of animals plants and technology

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Mercantalism

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Policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply Of silver and gold

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Capitalism

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EconOmic system in which the means of production are privately owned And operated for profit

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Small Pox

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Europeans brought small pox to the new world

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Triangular Trade

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Colonial trade route among europe and it colonies, the West

Indies, and Africa in which Goods wWere exchanged for slaves

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Old World

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Europe

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New World

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The Americas

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Slave

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Traded goods for slaves in africa then transported to the west indies

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Middle passage

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The part of the Atlantic Ocean between the west coast of Africa and the West Indies

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Indentured Servant

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A person under contract to work for another person for a definite period of time

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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7 June 1494 divided the newly discovered lands outside Europe between Portugal and Spain

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Hernan Cortez

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Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico

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Francisco Pizzaro

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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima

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Christopher Columbus

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Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China