Unit 4 : 1450 - 1750 Flashcards
TransOceanic Interaction
How did European maritime exploration expand?
- Caravel boats
- lateen sails
- compasses
- astrolabe
- cartography
Where did Portuguese trade posts begin?
Africa & Indian Ocean
What ocean(s) did the Portuguese control?
South Atlantic, Indian Ocean
What ocean(s) did the Spanish control?
Pacific Ocean
Slave trade begins with Portugal, as henry the Explorer went down the coast of AFRICA
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The exchange of diseases, ideas, food crops, and populations from new to old world
Columbian Exchange
When was the spanish conquest of the aztecs?
1519?
A surface wind that blows predominantly in one direction, facilitated human interaction
Prevailing Winds
Treaty between Portugal and Spain that divided the world as then understood between the two. `
Treaty of Tordesillas
Spanish labor system that rewarded conquerors with the labor of conquered non-christian peoples.
Encomienda system
Spanish-Christian conquest of the Moorish territories
Reconquista
A nationalist economic policy that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy.
Mercantilism
The most common form of slavery in america. People can be bought and sold.
Chattel Slavery
A period when some consorts and mothers of the sultans of the ottoman empire exerted extraordinary political influence
Sultanate of women
