Key Figures and Concepts of Exploration and Colonization

Epidemic

• Widespread occurrence of infectious disease.

• Voyage transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas.

• To sail completely around the globe.

• Territory controlled by a foreign power

Voyage transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas.

Circumnavigate means: territory controlled by a foreign power.

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Spanish monarch who sponsored Columbus's voyages.

Last Inca emperor before Spanish conquest.

• Montazuma

• Atahualpa

• Vasco Nunez de Balboa

• Bartolomeu Dias

Aztec emperor during Spanish conquest.

• Atahualpa

• Montezuma

• Bartolomeu Dias

• Vasco Núñez de Balboa

Bartolomeu Dias

• Last Inca emperor before Spanish conquest.

• Aztec emperor during Spanish conquest.

• First European to sail around Africa's southern tip.

• First European to see the Pacific Ocean from America.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa

• Aztec emperor during Spanish conquest.

• First European to see the Pacific Ocean from America.

  
  

• First European to sail around Africa's southern tip.

• Last Inca emperor before Spanish conquest.

Middle Passage

• Widespread occurrence of infectious disease.

• Spread of cultural beliefs and social activities.

• Territory controlled by a foreign power.

• Voyage transporting enslaved Africans to the Americas.

To sail completely around the globe.

• Epidemic

• Middle Passage

• Circumnavigate

• Colony