Identify Ch. 25-26 Flashcards
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| 306737720 | Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547) | |
| 306737721 | Pizarro | Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541) | |
| 306737722 | Jamestown | First permanent English settlement in North America | |
| 306737723 | Mestizo | A person of mixed spanish and native american ancestry | |
| 306737724 | Peninsulares | Latin American officials from Spain or Portugal | |
| 306737725 | Creoles | People who had Spanish or Portuguese parents but were born in Latin America. | |
| 306737726 | Hacienda | Large Latin American estates | |
| 306737727 | Cash Crops | Crops raised in large quantities in order to be sold for profit | |
| 306737728 | Guam | One of the only Pacific islands that attracted Spanish interest | |
| 306737729 | Triangular Trade | A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Aferica sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa | |
| 306737730 | Haiti (Saint Dominique) | First and only place to abolish slavery because of a slave revolt | |
| 306737731 | Great Zimbabwe | Large sub-Saharan African kingdom in the 15th century | |
| 306737732 | Timbuktu | City in Africa; the commercial and cultural center of the Mali and Songhay empires | |
| 306737733 | Gao | The capital city of the Songhay empire | |
| 306737734 | Kingdom of Kongo | The kingdom that was located at the mouth of the Congo river was the largest central African kingdom from the 1400s-1700s. Capital - Zimbabwe. | |
| 306737735 | Songhay | Sucessor of Mali; dominated middle reaches of the Niger valley; capital at Gao | |
| 306737736 | Swahili | City-states in east Africa; fell under hard times and began to decline |