Chapter 14 flash cards

Question 1

Conquistador

Answer 1

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

Question 2

Caravel

Answer 2

A small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.

Question 3

Ptolemy’s Geography

Answer 3

A second-century-C.E. work that synthesized the classical knowledge of geography and introduced the concepts of longitude and latitude. Reintroduced to Europeans in 1410 by Arab scholars, its ideas allowed cartographers to create more accurate maps.

Question 4

Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 4

A 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain, declaring that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal.

Question 5

Mexica Empire

Answer 5

Also known as the Aztec Empire, a large and complex Native American civilization in modern Mexico and Central America that possessed advanced mathematical, astronomical, and engineering technology.

Question 6

Inca Empire

Answer 6

Empire in Peru. conquered by Pizarro, who began an empire for the Spanish in 1535

Question 7

Viceroyalties

Answer 7

The name for the four administrative units of Spanish possessions in the Americas: New Spain, Peru, New Granada, and La Plata.

Question 8

Ecomienda System

Answer 8

System by which the natives were essentially enslaved, and received food from the Spanish in return

Question 9

Columbian Exchange

Answer 9

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus’s voyage