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Chapter 17
The Age of Exploration
Question | Answer |
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a small, fast ship with a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails | caravel |
a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas | conquistador |
a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control | colony |
a set of economic principles that said that the wealth of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver | mercantilism |
a large agricultural estate | plantation |
the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas | Middle Passage |
a person born on the Iberian Peninsula and living in the Americas, usually as a government official | peninsulare |
a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently | creole |
a person of mixed European and Native American descent | mestizo |
a person of mixed European and African descent | mulatto |
a labor system used by the Spanish in the Americas where Native Americans were used as forced labor | encomienda |
a labor system in the Americas used by the Spanish in Peru, forcing native people to work, usually in mines | mita |
Francisco Pizarro conquered these people | Inca |
Hernan Cortez conquered these people | Aztec |
The Inca were conquered in this year | 1533 |
The Aztec were conquered in this year | 1519 |
This European explorer first encountered the Americas in 1492 | Christopher Columbus |
In 1498, Vasco da Gama reached this area | India |
In 1488, this explorer reached the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa | Bartholomeu Dias |
This was the highest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas | peninsulares |
This was the second highest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas | creoles |
These two groups made up the third highest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas | mestizos/mulattoes |
These two groups were the lowest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas | slaves/Native Americans |
The trading of diseases, food, animals, people, and goods between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia is known as this | Columbian Exchange |
This disease caused the most deaths of indigenous peoples in the Americas | smallpox |
Spain, Portugal, England, and these two other countries claimed land in the Americas | Netherlands, France |
This was the only large domestic animal in the Americas prior to the Columbian Exchange | llama |
Europeans developed immunities to diseases from these | domestic animals |
This metal was a key in allowing the Europeans to conquer indigenous people | steel |
This animal was significant in allowing the Europeans to conquer indigenous people | horse |
The east coast of the present-day United States was mostly settled by this country | England |
These people were brought to the Americas as slaves | Africans |
This was the main crop grown on plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean | sugar |
This was the first step of the Triangular Trade system | manufactured goods from Europe to Africa |
This was the second step of the Triangular Trade system | slaves from Africa to the Americas |
This was the third step of the Triangular Trade system | raw materials from the Americas to Europe |
Approximately this many African slaves were brought to the Americas over the course of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade | 12 million |
The majority of African slaves were brought to this area | Caribbean |
This country was colonized by Portugal | Brazil |
The slave trade was officially abolished by Britain in this year | 1807 |
The Dutch first reached Southeast Asia and set up a trading company in this year | 1595 |
This church had a significant impact in the Americas as missionaries | Catholic |
Most slaves were taken this area of Africa in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade | west |
He was the first person to travel all the way around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
The first slaves were brought to the Americas by the Portuguese in this year | 1502 |