The age of exploration vocabulary
VOCABULARY
1. Triangular Trade – it connected Europe, Africa, and Asia, and the American continents. Europe sent goods to Africa, Africa sent slaves to America, and America sent stuff to Europe.
2. Middle Passage - the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas.
3. Depopulation - the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all).
4. Corruption –fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
5. Lament – a depressed, sad, feeling.
6. Mainland States - part of a continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands.
7. Bureaucracy - a body of nonelective government officials
8. Linguistic - relating to language or linguistics.
9. Ethnic - relating to a population subgroup with a common national or cultural tradition.
10. Civil War - a war between citizens of the same country.
11. Aristocrats - a member of the aristocracy.
12. Confucius - Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death.
13. Mortal - subject to death.
14. Sacred – people who dedicate their life to God or gods.
15. Intermediary - a person who acts as a link between people in order to try to bring about an agreement or reconciliation; a mediator.
16. Monarch - a sovereign head of state.
17. Sultan - a Muslim sovereign.
18. Emperor - a sovereign ruler of great power and rank.
19. Realm – a kingdom.
20. Plantation - large agricultural estates
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1. A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century was called mercantilism.
2. Conquistadors were Spanish conquerors who were motivated by religious zeal and the desire for glory and riches.
3. A body of nonelective government officials is called a Bureaucracy.
4. Many Africans were removed from their homes and shipped to large landed estates in the Americas called Plantation.
5. States that form part of a continent
1. Triangular Trade – it connected Europe, Africa, and Asia, and the American continents. Europe sent goods to Africa, Africa sent slaves to America, and America sent stuff to Europe.
2. Middle Passage - the journey of slaves from Africa to the Americas.
3. Depopulation - the condition of having reduced numbers of inhabitants (or no inhabitants at all).
4. Corruption –fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
5. Lament – a depressed, sad, feeling.
6. Mainland States - part of a continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands.
7. Bureaucracy - a body of nonelective government officials
8. Linguistic - relating to language or linguistics.
9. Ethnic - relating to a population subgroup with a common national or cultural tradition.
10. Civil War - a war between citizens of the same country.
11. Aristocrats - a member of the aristocracy.
12. Confucius - Chinese philosopher whose ideas and sayings were collected after his death.
13. Mortal - subject to death.
14. Sacred – people who dedicate their life to God or gods.
15. Intermediary - a person who acts as a link between people in order to try to bring about an agreement or reconciliation; a mediator.
16. Monarch - a sovereign head of state.
17. Sultan - a Muslim sovereign.
18. Emperor - a sovereign ruler of great power and rank.
19. Realm – a kingdom.
20. Plantation - large agricultural estates
PAGE 424.
1. A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century was called mercantilism.
2. Conquistadors were Spanish conquerors who were motivated by religious zeal and the desire for glory and riches.
3. A body of nonelective government officials is called a Bureaucracy.
4. Many Africans were removed from their homes and shipped to large landed estates in the Americas called Plantation.
5. States that form part of a continent