Columbian Exchange

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Conquistador

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

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Columbian exchange

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A wide variety of trade such as people, food, disease, plants, and animals

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Mercantilism

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

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Capitalism

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Economic system in which in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit

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Small pox

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A spreading disease that caused tons of deaths for centuries

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Triangular trade

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Colonial trade route among Europe and it’s colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves

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Middle passage

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A horrible experience for Africans; once purchased they were packed away below the decks of slave ships

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Old world

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Belonging or associated with former times

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New world

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Belonging or associating with present times

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Slave

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Someone who is bought and sold for trade

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Indentured servant

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A form of a debt bondage

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Christopher Columbus

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Sailed to North America in 1492 creating trade routes and trading posts to North America

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Hernan Cortez

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Led an expedition that led to the fall of the Aztec Empire

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Francisco Pizarro

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Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire

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Treaty of Tordesillas

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The lands to the east would belong to Portugal and the lands to the west would belong to Spain