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Question | Answer |
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Encomienda System | System where the Spanish government demanded labor from Native Americans. |
Mestizo | Person of Native American and European descent |
Olaudah Equiano | Former enslaved African. As a child was sold into slavery, acquired his freedom, later became a writer and abolitionist. |
Triangular Trade | Colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves. |
Middle Passage | The leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas. |
Mutiny | Revolt |
Colombian Exchange | The global exchange of goods,ideas,plants and animals, and disease that began with Columbus's exploration of the Americas |
Inflation | Economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available. |
Mercantilism | Policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver. |