Chapter 11/12 Flashcards
Kongo
One of earliest successes kingdom south of Congo River the whole kingdom converted Christianity
Factories
Forts that Africans brought goods to be traded
African diaspora
Important demographic change
Spreading of Africans to many parts of the world
The middle passage
Passage that ships carried slaves
Manila galleons
Spanish sailing vessel traveled got Asian goods
The great circuit
Network of sea routes
Cash crops
What investors sough profit in production/export of
The Colombian exchange
Global diffusion of crops human beings disease
Indentured servitude
English middle colonies labor system
Bound by contract to work for a person in exchange for payment of voyage to new world
Mercantilism
English/Dutch try control economy thru this sys they intervened in market constantly though goal of economic was to benefit mother country
Protestant worth ethic
Encouraged individual endeavors toward gaining wealth
Peninsulares
Those born in old World
Creoles
Those born in the new world
Mestizos
Part Amerindian and European
Mulattoes
Someone both European and African