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| Atlantic Slave Trade | The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas. |
| Triangle Trade | Trade network by which African slaves were captured and traded/sold for goods in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. The trade occurring between England, Africa, and the Americas. |
| Middle Passage | The voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas. |
| Treaty of Tordesilla | 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain that divided their New World land claims. |
| Dutch East India Company | Company established to direct trade in Asia. Could int money, make treaties, and even raise an army. |
| Ming Dynasty | Chinese dynasty that ruled from 1368-1644. |
| Qing Dynasty | Dynasty begun by the Manchus. Ruled China for more that 260 years. |
| Manchus | Invaders from the north of China who invaded and caused the Ming Dynasty to collapse. |
| Epidemic | An outbreak of a contagious disease that spreads rapidly and widely. |
| Smallpox | A very serious and contagious disease that was introduced to the New World by explorers. (Gets its name from the pus-filled blisters or pocks that form during the illness.) |
| Immunity | The body's ability to protect itself against certain diseases. |
| Circumnavigate | To sail around the world. |
| Exploration | To travel for the purpose of discovery. |
| Conquistadors | Spanish conqueror. |
| Dynasty | A succession of rulers from the same family or line. |
| Revolution | The overthrow of one government and its replacement with another. |
| Colony | Lands controlled by another nation (of the Mother Country). A body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland. |
| Isolationism | A policy of not making agreements or working with other countries. |
| Plantation | An estate or large farm where cash crops are grown on a large scale. |
| Cash Crop | A crop grown for sale rather than for subsistence. |
| Commerce | Another word for trade. |
| Cottage Industry | A small business where goods are made in a person's home. |
| Encomienda System | Forced Native American labor by the Spanish. A system under which a Spanish soldier was granted a tract of land with its Indian inhabitants. |
| Capitalism | An economic system where businesses are privately owned by individuals or groups of individuals. |
| Merccantilism | An economic system to increase a nation's wealth by a government regulating all of the nation's imports and exports. |
| Joint Stock Company | Worked like a corporation with investors buying shares of stock of a company. |
| Balance of Trade | The difference in value between the total exports and the total imports of a nation. |
| Entrepreneur | A person who starts or organizes a business. |
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases caused by contact between the Old World and the New World. |
| Old World | Europe, Asia, Africa |
| New World | The Americas |
