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6379966137Viceroythe administrative head of the provinces of New Spain and Peru in the Americas0
6379966138Encomienda systemunder which European settlers received grants of land and could collect tribute from the indigenous people and use them as laborers.1
6379966139Columbian Exchangethe exchange of animals, plants, and culture, but also communicable diseases and human populations including slaves, between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres that occurred after Columbus's voyages to the Americas2
6379966140MaritimeIn premodern times, a network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia.3
6379966141Prince Henry"the navigator of Portugal" an outspoken advocate of European advocate of European expansion, said that he was motivated by "his great desire to make increase in the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and to bring him all the souls that should be saved"4
6379966142God, Glory, Goldmotives for voyages to the Americas5
6379966143Cape of Good HopeSouthern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India.6
6379966144Treaty of Tordesillasdivided the newly discovered worlds into separate Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence.7
6379966145Joint Stock Companies and examplesIndividuals bought shares in a company and received dividends on their investment while a board of directors ran the company and made the important business decisions8
6379966146Merchantilisman economic theory that held that a nation's prosperity depended on it's supply of gold and sliver and that the total volume of trade is unchangeable; therefore advocated that the government play an active role in economy by encouraging exports and discouraging imports, especially through the use of tariffs9
6379966147Commercial Revolutionthe expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries.10
6379966148Define the columbia exchange?Global diffusion of plants, animal, human population, diease, following the voages of Christopher Columbus11
6379966149Name products from the Old World to the New World:Citrus fruits, grapes, bananas, sugar cane, onions, coffee beans12
6379966150Name products that moved from the new world to the old worldSquash, pumpkins, turkeys, peanuts, potatoes, corn13
6379966151Define the encomienda systemWas the Spanish recruitment of indigenous labor for work in the mines and fields The Spanish required to protect workers and encourage them to convert to Christianity Workers faced harsher punishment and could rebel with "primitive" weapons14
6379966152Name the social pyramid of the New world1: Peninsulares - Spaniards born in Spain 2: Creoles: born in New Spain of Spanish parents 3: Mesitizos - born of Spain and Native American parents 4: enslaved persons- brought from Africa and Caribbean15
6379966153What does the Triangular trade look like?1. (From New World to Old) Sugar, tobacco, and cotton to Europe 2. (From Europe to Africa) Textiles, rum, and manufactures goods to Africa 3. (From Africa to the Americas) Slaves to the Americas16
6379966154haciendasrural, family owned estates, produced crops and wealth for rising aristocrats, used Indian laborers (Spanish)17
6379966155CaravelA small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Europeans in the exploration of the Atlantic.18
6379966156Triangular sailsLateen Sails,Feature of the caravel that made it sail more effectively19
6379966157SextantNavigation tool used to determine a ship's latitude and longitude20
6379966158Cartographyscience or art of making maps21
6379966159ReconquistaA long effort by the Spanish to drive the Muslims out of Spain22
6379966160InquisitionA period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation conducted by the Roman Church23
6379966161MercantilismAn economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought24
6379966163EncomiendaA grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it25
6379966164Middle PassageA voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies to work on plantains.26
6379966165Ferdinand and IsabellaCatholic monarchs of Spain during Columbus' voyages.27
6379966166Henry the Navigator(1394-1460) Portuguese prince who promoted the study of navigation and directed voyages of exploration down the western coast of Africa.28
6379966167Christopher ColumbusItalian navigator who discovered the New World and the East Indies in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China. Also had the Columbian Exchange.29
6379966168Amerigo VespucciA mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him.30
6379966169Ferdinand Magellan(Portuguese explorer) First to go around the world (didn't actually go around, died in Philippines but his expedition made it around) (South American strait named after). Also named the Pacific Ocean for Peaceful Ocean.31
6379972678MitaOriginally labor owed by Incan peasants to their emperor to keep public works intact, the Spanish used this system as a mode of forced labor in which conquered Indians were forced to work in silver mines among other things32

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