Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
20 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
conquistadors |
individuals whose firearms, organizational skills, and determination brought them huge success |
|
|
encominda |
right of land owners to use Native americans as laborers |
|
|
columbian exchange |
exchange of plants and animals between europe and the americas |
|
|
hernan cortes |
spanish conqueror of mexico |
|
|
vasco da gama |
explorer, went around the cape and cut across the Indian ocean to the coast of India |
|
|
christopher columbus |
explorer, believed he could reach india by sailing west instead of east around africa |
|
|
ferdinand magellan |
spanish explorer, persuaded the king to fund his voyage to asia, through the western hemisphere |
|
|
john cabot |
venetian seaman, explored the new england coastline of america for england |
|
|
amerigovespucci |
florentine, went along on voyages with pedro cabral, he wrote letters describing America's lands |
|
|
montezuma |
aztec monarch, greeted explorer cortez |
|
|
francisco pizarro |
spanish explorer, landed on the pacific coast of south america and brought new technologies |
|
|
colony |
settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and control |
|
|
mercantilism |
set of principles that dominated economic thought |
|
|
balance of trade |
difference in value between what a nation imports and what a nation imports and what it exports over time |
|
|
triangular trade |
slave trade that connected europe, africa, and America |
|
|
middle passage |
slave journey from africa to america, the mid portion of the triangular trade |
|
|
peninsulares |
spanish/ portuguese officials who were born in europe and held all gov't positions |
|
|
creoles |
below the peninsulares, descendants of europeans, born in latin america. |
|
|
mestizos |
offspring between Europeans and native americans. |
|
|
mulattoes |
offspring between Africans and Europeans. |
