| A | B |
|---|
| Mercantilism | how the European countries acquired wealth and power |
| Vasco da Gama | Found trade route from Portugal to India |
| Columbus | found the Bahamas and Cuba, he thought he was in India |
| Pizarro | Discovered the Incan civilization |
| African exports | slaves, ivory & gold |
| Francis Drake | explored for England |
| Commercial Revolution | European countries competed for overseas markets, colonies, and resources |
| indigeneous | native to a certain place |
| African imports | corn & peanuts |
| plantation system | implementation of this destroyed native economies & increased the demand for slave |
| Prince Henry | pioneered exploration but never made a voyage |
| cash crops | sugan, coffee & cotton |
| Cortez | discovered the Aztec and Mayan Empires |
| Magellan | first to circumnavigate the world |
| Cartier | claimed Canada for France |
| isolation | adopted by Asian countries to limit foreign influences |
| triangular trade | three directional trade route between Europe, Africa and America |
| Columbian Exchange | traded agricultural products such as corn, pototoes, tobacco, horses and cattle |
| Why Europeans wanted to explore | God, gold and glory |
| Incan | empire conquered by Pizarro located in modern day Peru |
| Aztec | empire conquered by Cortez located in modern day Mexico |
| Mayan | empire conquered by Cortez located in modern day Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador (most of the Yucatan Peninsula) |
| encomienda | A rigid class system implemented in Spanish and Portuguese colonies |
| peninsulares | the top of the encomienda system; Settlers born in Spain/Europe |
| creoles | second in the encomienda system; European descendants born in the Americas |
| mestizos/mulattos | third in the encomienda system; Children of mixed race born in the Americas |
| Africans/Natives | bottom of the encomienda system |
