| A | B |
|---|
| gold, god, glory | motives for exploration |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | split the world in half, Spain got the Americas & Portigal got Asia |
| Prince Henry | Portugeuese sailer who sailed to the west coast of Africa called the Gold Coast |
| Gold Coast | West coast of Africa |
| Cape of Good Hope | southern tip of Africa |
| Bartholomeu Dias | Portuguese sailer who found Cape of Good Hope |
| John Cabot | explored the New England Coastline of the Americas for England |
| Amerigo Vespucci | named America |
| Christopher Columbus | believed he could reach Asia by sailing west |
| conquistador | spanish conqueror of America |
| Francisco Pizarro | took control of Incan Empire in Peruvian Andies |
| Hernan Cortes | overthrew Aztec Empire in Central America |
| Ferdinand Magellan | turned the Philippines into a naval base for Spain; sailed around the world |
| colony | a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control |
| mercantilism | the principles that dominated economic thought in the 17 century -- the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver |
| balance of trade | the difference between what a nation imports and exports over time |
| plantation | large agricultural estate like those in Brazil & the Caribbean |
| triangular trade | connected Europe, Africa, Asia and the America |
| Middle Passage | journey of slaves from Africa to America |
| mainland states | part of the continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands |
| bureaucracy | a body of nonelective government officials |
| da Gama | Portugeuese sailer who rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed to India for several thousand percent profit |
