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Chapter 16 vocab
Chapter 16 vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| conquistador | conqueror. |
| immunity | resistance. |
| alliance | association. |
| civil war | war within same nation. |
| viceroy | royal representative. |
| plantation | large estate for workers. |
| encomienda | right to demand labor or taxes. |
| peon | forced laborer. |
| peninsular | colonist born in Spain. |
| creole | American-born descendant of Spanish settler. |
| mestizo | Native American and Spanish descendant. |
| mulatto | African and Spanish descendant. |
| privateer | pirate. |
| missionary | |
| revenue | income from taxes |
| compact | an agreement among people. |
| triangular trade | Atlantic slave trade formed one part of a three legged trade network. |
| repeal | cancel the law |
| monopoly | Is the exclusive control of a business or industry slave trade. |
| inflation | The economic cycle that involves a rise i prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available is today. |
| capitalism | the investment of money to make a profit. |
| entrpreneur | Enterprising merchants, organized, managed, and assumed the risks of doing business. |
| join stock company | developed in late medieval times, grew in importance |
| mercantillism | |
| tariff | |
| Taínos | people who lived in villages and grew corn,yams and cotton.They were friendly and generous toward the Spanish. |
| Hernan Cortés | Hernan Cortes (1485-1547) lands on coast of Mexico with 600 men and few cannons. Burns his ships. Marches his men to Tenochitian, capital of Aztec ruler, Montezuma. |
| Malinche | Young Indian Woman who served as Cortés,translator and adviser. |
| Moctezume | An Aztec Emperor.He send gift of gold and silver. |
| Francisco Pizarro | |
| Atahulpa | |
| Council of the Indies | |
| Bartolome de las Casas | |
| New Laws of the the Idies | |
| Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz | |
| Samuel de Champlain | |
| Louis XIV | |
| Jamestown | |
| Pilgrims | |
| Mayflower Compact | |
| French and Indian War | |
| Treaty of Paris | |
| Middle Passage | |
| Asante | |
| Usman dan Fodio | |
| Boer | |
| Shaka | |
| Great Trek | |
| Columbian exchange | |
| commercial revolution | |
| putting-out system |