Age of Exploration Flashcards
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Key terms, explorers, and concepts from the Age of Exploration for Grade 7 review.
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- Age of Exploration
- The period (roughly 1400–1650) when European nations sent explorers to find new sea routes and claim new lands.
- Prince Henry the Navigator
- Portuguese prince who promoted and funded early voyages of exploration along the African coast.
- caravel
- A small, fast, highly maneuverable sailing vessel developed by the Portuguese for ocean exploration.
- Bartholomeu Dias
- Portuguese explorer who in 1488 became the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope at Africa's southern tip.
- Vasco da Gama
- Portuguese explorer who in 1498 completed the first sea voyage from Europe to India, bypassing overland routes.
- Christopher Columbus
- Italian-born explorer funded by Spain who reached the Caribbean in 1492, beginning sustained European contact with the Americas.
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Explorer whose expedition (1519–1522) was the first to circumnavigate the globe; Magellan died in the Philippines before completion.
- Columbian Exchange
- The transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and people between the Americas and Europe/Africa/Asia that began after Columbus's voyages.
- conquistador
- A Spanish soldier-explorer who conquered peoples and territories in the Americas during the 16th century.
- mercantilism
- Economic theory holding that a nation's wealth depends on accumulating gold and silver, with colonies serving to enrich the home country.
- triangular trade
- The three-way trade route linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas that included the enslaved people trade.
- Northwest Passage
- A hoped-for sea route through or around North America to Asia that explorers like Cabot and Hudson searched for.
- Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)
- An agreement between Spain and Portugal dividing the newly discovered non-European world between the two powers.
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