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