Chapter 6: Age of Exploration

Economic pattern that imported and exported goods among the Africa, the Americas, and New England

• Sea Commerce

• Economic Caravels

• Triangular Trade

• Three-port Dollar Route

An economic policy where nations increased their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought

• Socialism

• Imperialism

• Mercantilism

• Militarism

What is another name for Spanish Explorers?

• Encomienda

• Explorador

• Conquistador

• Enviar

Middle Passage

• The route Pizarro took in order to control and destroy the Incan Empire

• The route to India around Africa taken by Diaz

• The route taken to Africa by Vasco De Gama

• The route by which slaves were shipped to the Americas from Africa

Settlement of people living in new territory linked with parent country

• Colonize

• Colonialism

• Colony

• Cologne

Balance of Trade

• Having more exports than imports

• Having more imports than exports

• Difference in value between imports and exports

• Lack of goods for exports

States that are part of a continent

• United States

• Mainland States

• Island States

• Peninsula states

Plantation

• Large estate in South America

• Plot of land in Southeast Asia

• Large home in Southern India

• Slave quarters in North America

Bureaucracy

• Cabinet for storing goods

• Body of nonelected government officials

• Body of elected government officials

• Government run by a small body of officials

Planters in the Americas began to use African slaves for labor because

• Aztecs refused to work on plantations.

• African slaves were less expensive than Native American slaves.

• they believed Native Americans were not human.

• disease had killed millions of Native Americans.