Chapter 7+8 Flashcards
Encomienda
Form of forced labor that the Amerindians were forced to do
Creoles
Whites born in America to European Parents
Mulattos
Mixed European and African descent
Mestizos
Amerindian women + European Men
Iroquois Confederacy
An alliance among many native Americans including Mohawk, Oneida, onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people
New France
Colony founded by Samuel Champlain on banks of St.Lawrence
Tupac
Led rebellion against Spanish
Potosí
Single richest silver deposit
Royal African Company
Association of English investors, charters
Atlantic System
New system that moved goods, wealth, people and cultures
Dutch West India Company
Carried conflict of Spain’s overseas possession
Manumission
Legal Freedom
Mercantilism
Policies adopted by European states that disapproved of foreign trade
Atlantic Circuit
Clockwise network of sea routes
Songhai Empire
West Africa, drew its wealth from trans Saharan African trade