| A | B |
|---|
| Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who rounded the tip of Africa |
| Prince Henry | Thanks to his support for exploration, Portugal was the first to reach Asia by sea |
| Vasco da Gama | Explorer who reached India first by sea and gave Portugal a direct route to Asia |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Treaty between Spain and Portugal dividing newly discovered land between them |
| People who bring religious ideas to new places | Missionaries |
| Christopher Columbus | Explorer for Spain who sailed west and encountered the America continent |
| Triangular Trade | Exchange of merchandise between Europe, America, and Africa |
| Why did the Europeans want to find a sea route to Asia | To avoid paying higher prices for spices to the Italian merchants |
| Reasons for exploration can be summarize using these three G's | God, Glory, and Gold |
| Land controlled by another country | Colony |
| Smallpox | This disease devastated the Native Americans |
| Francisco Pizarro | Conquistador who defeated the Incas |
| Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America |
| Columbian Exchange | Interactions between the world and the new world |
| Middle Passage | Difficult journey slaves endured in crossing the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas |
| Mestizo | Person of mixex Spanish and Native American blood |
| Mercantilism | Theory in which states power depends on its wealth |
| Ferdinand Magellan | First person to circumnavigate the globe |
| Hernando Cortez | Conquistador who defeated the Aztecs |
| Francis Drake | First Englishman to sail around the world |
