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apush terms 1-13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| aristocratic | Members of the highest class of society, typically nobility who inherited their ranks and titles. |
| astrolabe | A tool invented by Greek astronomers and sailors for navigation or astrological problems. |
| Atlantic World | The interactions between the peoples from the lands bordering the Atlantic Ocean-Africa, the Americas, and Western Europe-beginning in the late fifteenth century. |
| Aztecs | Spanish term for Mexica, and indigenous people who built an empire in present-day Mexico in the centuries before the arrival of the Spaniards. |
| capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership of property and the open exchange of goods between property holders. |
| caravel | A swift sailing ship invented by the Portuguese during the 15th century. |
| Columbian Exchange | The biological exchange between the Americas and the rest of the world between 1492 and the end of the 16th century. Although its initial impact was strongest in the Americas and Europe, it was soon felt globally. |
| conquistadors | Also known as encomenderos, Spanish soldiers who were central to the conquest of the civilizations of the Americas. Once the conquest was complete, conquistadors often extracted wealth from the people and lands they came to rule. |
| encomienda | System first established by Christopher Columbus by which Spanish leaders in the Americas received land and the labor of all American Indians residing on it. For American Indians, the encomienda system accounted to enslavement. |
| feudalism | A social and economic system organized by a hierarchy of hereditary classes. Lower social classes owed loyalty to the social classes above them and, in return, received protection or land. |
| Franciscan | Member of a Catholic religious order founded by St. Francis of Assisi in the thirteenth century. |
| horticulture | A form of agriculture in which people work small plots of land with simple tools |
| Incas | Andean people who built an empire in the centuries before the arrival of the Spaniards near the Andes Mountains along the Pacific coast. Reaching the height of their power in the fifteenth century, the Incas controlled some sixteen million people. |
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