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| 5726760930 | Viceroy | the administrative head of the provinces of New Spain and Peru in the Americas | 0 | |
| 5726760932 | Columbian Exchange | the transmission of animals, plants, communicable diseases and human populations including slaves, between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres that occurred after Columbus's voyages to the Americas | 1 | |
| 5726760933 | Maritime | In premodern times, a network of seaports, trade routes, and maritime culture linking countries on the rim of the Indian Ocean from Africa to Indonesia. | 2 | |
| 5726760934 | Prince 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" | 3 | |
| 5726760935 | God, Glory, Gold | motives for voyages to the Americas | 4 | |
| 5726760936 | Cape of Good Hope | Southern tip of Africa; first circumnavigated in 1488 by Portuguese in search of direct route to India. | 5 | |
| 5726760937 | Treaty of Tordesillas | divided the newly discovered worlds into separate Portuguese and Spanish spheres of influence | 6 | |
| 5726760938 | Joint Stock Companies | Individuals bought shares in a company and received dividends on their investment while a board of directors ran the company and made the important business decisions | 7 | |
| 5726760939 | Mercantilism | the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism. | 8 | |
| 5726760940 | Commercial Revolution | the expansion of the trade and buisness that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries. | 9 | |
| 5738435706 | Vasco da Gama | Portuguese explorer and the first European to reach India by sea. His initial voyage to India (1497-1499) was the first to link Europe and Asia by an ocean route, connecting the Atlantic and the Indian oceans and, in this way, the West and the Orient. | 10 | |
| 5738460185 | Hernan Cortez | Spanish Conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire and brought large portions of mainland Mexico under the rule of the King of Castile in the early 16th century. | 11 | |
| 5738475982 | Moctezuma | ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan, reigning from 1502 to 1520. The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan. | 12 | |
| 5726827729 | castas | a hierarchical system of race classification created by Spanish elites (españoles) in Hispanic America during the eighteenth century. | 13 | |
| 5738723934 | smallpox | had a catastrophic impact on the Americas, which had no exposure prior to the arrival of Spanish and Portuguese conquistadors. Tearing through the Incas before Francisco Pizarro even got there, it made the empire unstable and ripe for conquest. It also devastated the Aztecs, killing, among others, the second-to-last of their rulers. In fact, historians believe it and other European diseases reduced the indigenous population of North and South America by up to 90 percent, a blow far greater than any defeat in battle. | 14 | |
| 5726822976 | peninsulares | Spanish-born Spaniard residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies | 15 | |
| 5726844308 | creoles | born in New Spain of Spanish parents | 16 | |
| 5726847731 | mestizos | born of Spain and Native American parents | 17 | |
| 5738283151 | mulattoes | people of mixed white and black ancestry, especially with one white and one black parent. | 18 | |
| 5738389563 | zambos | term used in the Spanish and Portuguese Empires to identify individuals in the Americas who are of mixed African and Amerindian ancestry | 19 | |
| 5738756679 | Potosi | major colonial-era supplier of silver for Spain, it was directly and tangibly associated with the massive import of precious metals to Seville, which precipitated a flood of Spanish currency and resulted in globally significant economic changes in the 16th century. | 20 | |
| 5726760946 | Triangular trade | 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 Americas |  | 21 |
| 5738423488 | treasure junk | a type of large wooden ship in the fleet of admiral Zheng He, who led seven voyages during the early 15th-century Ming Dynasty | 22 | |
| 5726760947 | haciendas | rural, family owned Spanish estates that produced crops and provided wealth for rising aristocrats, used Indian laborers | 23 | |
| 5726760948 | caravel | A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Europeans in the exploration of the Atlantic. | 24 | |
| 5726760949 | Lateen Sail | feature of the caravel that made it sail more effectively. triangular shape |  | 25 |
| 5726760950 | Sextant | Navigation tool used to determine a ship's latitude and longitude | 26 | |
| 5726760952 | Reconquista | A long effort by the Spanish to drive the Muslims out of Spain | 27 | |
| 5726760953 | Inquisition | A period of prolonged and intensive questioning or investigation conducted by the Roman Church | 28 | |
| 5726760956 | Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it | 29 | |
| 5726760957 | Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the North and South America and the West Indies to work on plantations. | 30 | |
| 5726760958 | Ferdinand and Isabella | Catholic monarchs of Spain during Columbus' voyages. | 31 | |
| 5726760960 | Christopher Columbus | Genoese navigator who discovered the New World and the East Indies in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China. | 32 | |
| 5726760961 | Amerigo Vespucci | A mapmaker and explorer who said that America was a new continent, so America was named after him. | 33 | |
| 5726760962 | Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese explorer who organised the Castilian (Spanish) expedition to the East Indies from 1519 to 1522, resulting in the first circumnavigation of the Earth. Killed in what later became the Philippines. | 34 | |
| 5738766339 | Muscovy Company | the first major chartered joint stock company, the precursor of the type of business that would soon flourish in England, and became closely associated with such famous names as Henry Hudson and William Baffin. Thrived until 1698, after which it survived as a trading company until the Russian Revolution of 1917 | 35 |
