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Chapter 17
The Age of Exploration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| a small, fast ship with a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails | caravel |
| a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas | conquistador |
| a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control | colony |
| a set of economic principles that said that the wealth of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver | mercantilism |
| a large agricultural estate | plantation |
| the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas | Middle Passage |
| a person born on the Iberian Peninsula and living in the Americas, usually as a government official | peninsulare |
| a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently | creole |
| a person of mixed European and Native American descent | mestizo |
| a person of mixed European and African descent | mulatto |
| a labor system used by the Spanish in the Americas where Native Americans were used as forced labor | encomienda |
| a labor system in the Americas used by the Spanish in Peru, forcing native people to work, usually in mines | mita |
| Francisco Pizarro conquered these people | Inca |
| Hernan Cortez conquered these people | Aztec |
| The Inca were conquered in this year | 1533 |
| The Aztec were conquered in this year | 1519 |
| This European explorer first encountered the Americas in 1492 | Christopher Columbus |
| In 1498, Vasco da Gama reached this area | India |
| In 1488, this explorer reached the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa | Bartholomeu Dias |
| This was the highest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas | peninsulares |
| This was the second highest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas | creoles |
| These two groups made up the third highest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas | mestizos/mulattoes |
| These two groups were the lowest social class in the Spanish colonies of the Americas | slaves/Native Americans |
| The trading of diseases, food, animals, people, and goods between the Americas and Afro-Eurasia is known as this | Columbian Exchange |
| This disease caused the most deaths of indigenous peoples in the Americas | smallpox |
| Spain, Portugal, England, and these two other countries claimed land in the Americas | Netherlands, France |
| This was the only large domestic animal in the Americas prior to the Columbian Exchange | llama |
| Europeans developed immunities to diseases from these | domestic animals |
| This metal was a key in allowing the Europeans to conquer indigenous people | steel |
| This animal was significant in allowing the Europeans to conquer indigenous people | horse |
| The east coast of the present-day United States was mostly settled by this country | England |
| These people were brought to the Americas as slaves | Africans |
| This was the main crop grown on plantations in Brazil and the Caribbean | sugar |
| This was the first step of the Triangular Trade system | manufactured goods from Europe to Africa |
| This was the second step of the Triangular Trade system | slaves from Africa to the Americas |
| This was the third step of the Triangular Trade system | raw materials from the Americas to Europe |
| Approximately this many African slaves were brought to the Americas over the course of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade | 12 million |
| The majority of African slaves were brought to this area | Caribbean |
| This country was colonized by Portugal | Brazil |
| The slave trade was officially abolished by Britain in this year | 1807 |
| The Dutch first reached Southeast Asia and set up a trading company in this year | 1595 |
| This church had a significant impact in the Americas as missionaries | Catholic |
| Most slaves were taken this area of Africa in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade | west |
| He was the first person to travel all the way around the world | Ferdinand Magellan |
| The first slaves were brought to the Americas by the Portuguese in this year | 1502 |
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Mrs. Marquardt
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