Chapter 17 - The Age of Exploration Review

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leaders in the Spanish conquest of the Americas

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conquistadors

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seventeenth-century economic theory that held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

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mercantilism

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Who sponsored the first Portuguese fleets to explore the west coast of Africa?

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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exchange of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas

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Columbian Exchange

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forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

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Middle Passage

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settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control

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colony

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Vasco da Gama’s discovery of a route to India by sea proved to be

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very profitable, since da Gama returned with a valuable cargo of spices.

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The Treaty of Tordesillas, signed in 1494, established a line between territories controlled by Spain and those controlled by Portugal.

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established a line between territories controlled by Spain and those controlled by Portugal.

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The conquistadors’ main advantage over the Aztec and Inca Empires was their

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types of weaponry.

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According to mercantilists, the prosperity of a nation depended on

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a large supply of bullion, or gold and silver.