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World History
World History Conquest quiz
Term | Definition |
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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 |