Ch.17

Question 1

a Spanish conqueror of the Americans

Answer 1

Conquistador

Question 2

a settlement of people living in a new territory

Answer 2

Colony

Question 3

a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century

Answer 3

Mercantilism

Question 4

the difference in value between what nation imports and what it explores over time

Answer 4

Balance of trade

Question 5

a large agricultural estate

Answer 5

Plantation

Question 6

a pattern of trade that connected Europe, Africa, Asia, and the American continents

Answer 6

Triangular Trade

Question 7

the journey of slaves from Africa the America

Answer 7

Middle Passage

Question 8

part of a continent, as distinguished from peninsulas or offshore islands

Answer 8

Mainland Sates

Question 9

an administrative organization that relies on nonelective officials and regular procedures

Answer 9

Bureaucracy

Question 10

a Venetian seaman who explored the New England coastline of the Americas for England

Answer 10

John Cabot

Question 11

a Florentine who went along on several voyages and wrote letters describing what he saw

Answer 11

Amerigo Vespucci

Question 12

led an expedition that took control of the Incan Empire high in the Peruvian Empires

Answer 12

Francisco Pizarro

Question 13

“So great is the corruption that our country is being completely depopulated”

Answer 13

King Afonso of Congo

Question 14

went around the cape and cut across the Indian ocean to the coast of India

Answer 14

Vasco de Gama

Question 15

He was a spanish exploer who found the Americas

Answer 15

Christopher Columbus

Question 16

first circumnavigation of the Earth\

Answer 16

Ferdinand Magellan

Question 17

a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area

Answer 17

Encomienda