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World History
World History Conquest quiz
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| tainos | natives in the West Indies that Columbus made contact with |
| conquistadors | Spanish conqueres |
| tenochtitlan | the Aztec capital which later became Mexico City |
| aztec | great Indian empire from Mexico |
| inca | great Indian empire in present day Peru |
| New Spain | most important Spanish province situated in Mexico |
| Council of the Indies | group annointed by the King of Spain to pass laws for Spanish provinces in America |
| Viceroys | representatives who ruled each Spanish province in the name of the King |
| Audiencias | lesser Spanish officials who helped the Viceroys rule |
| plantations | large estates |
| encomiendas | the right of Spanish colonists to demand or tribute from the Native population |
| peons | workers forced to labor for a landlord to pay off a debt |
| New Laws of the Indies | 1542, ended the enslavement of the Native Americans in Spanish America |
| penisulars | people born in Spain |
| Creoles | American born descendants of Spanish settlers |
| mestizos | people of mixed native American and European decent |
| mulattoes | people of African and European decent |
| New France | present day Newfoundland, Canada |
| middle passage | the voyage of slave ships from Africa to America |
| Columbus exchange | the exchange of people's animals, plants technology, and disease between Europe and Americas |
| price revolution | the rise of prices in Europe during the global age |
| inflation | rise in prices due to an increase in the amount of money available |
| capitalism | the investment of money to make a profit |
| entrepreneurs | enterprising merchants who provided money that financed trade |
| merchantilism | policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imports in order to build up it's supply of gold and silver |
| Joint Stock Companies | private trading companies in which shares are sold to investors to finance business ventures |
| hispaniola | Spanish conquistadors and Columbus settled here |
| Jamestown | learned from the Indians how to grow tobacco; first permanent colony |
| Treaty of Paris | ended the French and Indian War in America |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs |
| Malinche | Indian women who served as Cortes Interpreter |
| Montezuma | Aztec emperor who was defeated by Cortes |
| Quetzalcoatl | the Aztec god king who long ago vowed to return from the East |
| Francisco Pizzaro | Spanish Conquistador who conquered the Inca's in Peru |
| Atahualpa | the Indian ruler in Peru |
| Bartholome de las Casas | Catholic priest who spoke out against the treatment of the natives |
| Samuel de Champlain | built the first French settlement in Quebec |