Chapter 17 Vocabulary

Question 1

Caravel

Answer 1

A small, fast maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually 3 small masts with lateen sails

Question 2

Conquistador

Answer 2

A leader of the Spanish conquest of the Americas

Question 3

Colony

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Joint-stock Company

Answer 4

A business where stocks are bought or owned by shareholders

Question 5

Mercantilism

Answer 5

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 6

Subsidies

Answer 6

Payments made to support enterprises a government thinks are beneficial

Question 7

Plantation

Answer 7

A large agricultural estate

Question 8

Middle Passage

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Peninsulare

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Creole

Answer 10

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

Question 11

Mestizo

Answer 11

A person of mixed European and Native American descent

Question 12

Mulatto

Answer 12

A person of mixed African and European descent

Question 13

Encomienda

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Mita

Answer 14

A labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft indigenous people to work