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WH: Chapter 4
The Age of Exploration 1500-1800
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| caravel | a small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails |
| colony | a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control |
| conquistador | a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas |
| overseas | beyond or across the sea |
| mercantilism | a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver |
| plantations | a large agricultural estate |
| Middle Passage | the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas |
| culture | the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group |
| export | to send a product or service for sale to another country |
| regime | a government in power |
| peninsulare | a person born on the Iberian peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe |
| creole | a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently |
| mestizo | a person of mixed European and Native American descent |
| mulatto | a person of mixed African and European descent |
| labor | people with all their abilities and efforts |
| encomienda | a system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas; Spanish landowners had the right, as granted by Queen Isabella, to use Native Americans as laborers |
| mita | a labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work |
| draft | to select for some purpose; to conscript |