chapter 17 vocab

Question 1

Caravel

Answer 1

a small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails

Question 2

Colony

Answer 2

a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control

Question 3

Conquistador

Answer 3

a leader in the Spanish conquest of America

Question 4

Mercantilism

Answer 4

a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

Question 5

Plantations

Answer 5

a large agricultural estate

Question 6

Middle Passage

Answer 6

the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

Question 7

Penninsulare

Answer 7

a person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe

Question 8

Encomienda

Answer 8

a system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas; Spanish landowners had the right, as granted by Queen Isabella, to use Native Americans as laborers

Question 9

Mestizo

Answer 9

a person of mixed European and Native American descent

Question 10

Mita

Answer 10

a labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work

Question 11

Creole

Answer 11

a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently

Question 12

Mulatto

Answer 12

a person of mixed African and European descent