Ch. 1: Concept/ Key Terms

Question 1

What was the Columbian Exchange

Answer 1

Trans Atlantic Trade between the Europeans and the Natives.

Question 2

What are Nation States

Answer 2

Country in which majority of people shared both a common culture and common loyalty toward a central government.

Question 3

Line of Demarcation

Answer 3

Pope grants Spain lands to the west and Portugal land to the east

Question 4

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 4

Spain and Portugal moved the pope’s line a few degrees to the west where Portugal claims Brazil.

Question 5

Conquistadores

Answer 5

Explorers and Conquerers of Spain

Question 6

Encomienda System

Answer 6

King of spain giving grants of land and natives to the Spaniards

Question 7

Asiento System

Answer 7

Enslaved west Africans brought to Americas by Spanish

Question 8

Dutch West India Company

Answer 8

The Dutch settled in New Amsterdam (New York) in 1609 where they had economic gains.

Question 9

Franciscan Order

Answer 9

Members who established missionaries along the coast

Question 10

New laws of 1592

Answer 10

The ending of the Encomienda System started by Bartholome de Casas