AP World History ch. 19 & 20 vocab Flashcards
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| 275501307 | Council of Indies | Body with Castilian government that issued all laws and advised king on all matters dealing with Spanish colonies and New World. | 0 | |
| 275501308 | Haciendas | Rural estates in Spanish colonies in New World; produced agricultural products for consumers in America. | 1 | |
| 275501309 | Creoles | Whites born in the New World; dominated Latin American colonies and ranked beneath peninsulares. | 2 | |
| 275501310 | Suriname | Dutch plantation colony on the coast of South America; location of runaway slave kingdom. | 3 | |
| 275501311 | Triangular Trade | Commerce linked Africa, New World colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco is transported to Europe. | 4 | |
| 275501312 | Creole Slaves | American born descendants of saltwater slaves; result of sexual exploitation of slave women or process of miscegenation. | 5 | |
| 275501313 | Asante Empire | Established Gold Coast among Akan people settled around Kumasi; dominated by Oyoko clan. | 6 | |
| 275501314 | Middle Passage | Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; generally a traumatic experience for black slaves, although it failed to strip Africans of their cultures. | 7 | |
| 275501315 | Great Trek | Movement of Boer settlers in Cape Colony of Southern Africa to escape influenza of British colonial government. | 8 | |
| 275501316 | Treaty of Tordesillas | Signed between Castile and Portugal; clarified spheres of influence and rights of possession in the New World. | 9 | |
| 275501317 | William Wilberforce | British statesman and reformer; leader of abolitionists movement in English Parliament that led to end of English slave trade. | 10 | |
| 275501318 | Moctezuma II | Last independent Aztec emperor; killed during conquest of Tenochtitlan. | 11 | |
| 275501319 | Royal African Company | Charted to establish a monopoly over slave trade among British merchants; supplied African slaves to colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia. | 12 | |
| 275501320 | Saltwater Slaves | Slaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black. | 13 | |
| 275501321 | Peninsulares | People living in the New World Spanish colonies but born in Spain. | 14 | |
| 275501322 | Encomienda | Grants of Indian laborers made to Spanish conquerors and settlers in Mesoamerica and South America. | 15 | |
| 275501323 | Hispaniota | First island in Caribbean settled by Spaniards; settlement founded by Columbus on second voyage to new world. | 16 | |
| 275501324 | Francisco Vasquez de Coronado | Leader of Spanish expedition into northern frontier region of New Spain; entered what is now U.S. in search of mythical cities of gold. | 17 | |
| 275501325 | Hernan Cortes | Led an expedition of 600 men to coast of Mexico; conquistadors responsible for defeat of Aztec empire. | 18 | |
| 275501326 | Viceroys | Senior government officials in Spanish America. Ruled as direct representative of the king over the principle administrative units. High ranking Spanish nobles with military or governmental experience. | 19 |