Chapter 14 (AP World History) Flashcards
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| 8431979143 | Audiencias | advisory group who assisted the viceroy in governing Spanish territories in the New World | 0 | |
| 8431981350 | Capital | Money for investment | 1 | |
| 8431984516 | Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. | 2 | |
| 8431987732 | Encomienda | the system in which conquistadors had forced natives to do work for them | 3 | |
| 8431990796 | Joint-stock company | A company in which investors buy stock in the company in return for a share of its future profits | 4 | |
| 8431993824 | Mercantilism | the theory that a country should sell more goods to other countries than it buys | 5 | |
| 8431995898 | Middle passage | the middle portion of the triangular trade that brought African slaves to the Americas | 6 | |
| 8431997996 | Portolani | detailed charts made by medieval navigators and mathematicians in the 13th and 14th century | 7 | |
| 8432000351 | Price revolution | The period in European history during the 1500s when inflation rose rapidly | 8 | |
| 8432000354 | Triangular trade | A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa | 9 | |
| 8432004691 | Viceroy | A governor or ruler exercising authority on behalf of a sovereign in a province or colony | 10 |