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Chapter 20
Exploration and slavery
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Social Studies
9th Grade
05/18/2017

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Triangular Trade
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Africans transported to the Americas were part of a trans-atlantic trading network

 

*Africans were taken from west Africa and brough to South America and then north America to be sold into slavery

 

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Christoper Columbus
Definition

Italy sailor who sailed for the Spanish

 

*Discovered the Bahamas

 

*Goal was to find gold in the East Indies

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Colonies
Definition
Lands that are controlled by another nation
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Hernando Cortes
Definition
*Spanish conquistador who took mexico from the Aztecs
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Tenochtitlan
Definition
Aztec Capital
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Montezuma II
Definition
Head of Aztecs
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Mestizo
Definition
A mix of Spanish and Native American
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Francisco Pizarro
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Colonized Peru for the Spanish

 

*Took this land from the Incas

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Encomienda
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A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers

 

*Spain later abolished this system and began to use Africans as laborers

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Middle Passage
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the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North and South America
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Columbian Exchange
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The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas
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Capitalism
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An economic system based on private ownership and the investment of resources (money) for profit
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Joint Stock Company
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A business where investors pool their wealth for a common purpose than share the profits
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Mercantilism
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An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
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Favorable balance of trade
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an economic situation in which a country sells more goods than they purchase
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Peninsular
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Spanish citizen living in the Americas
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