Chapter 7+8

Question 1

Encomienda

Answer 1

Form of forced labor that the Amerindians were forced to do

Question 2

Creoles

Answer 2

Whites born in America to European Parents

Question 3

Mulattos

Answer 3

Mixed European and African descent

Question 4

Mestizos

Answer 4

Amerindian women + European Men

Question 5

Iroquois Confederacy

Answer 5

An alliance among many native Americans including Mohawk, Oneida, onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca people

Question 6

New France

Answer 6

Colony founded by Samuel Champlain on banks of St.Lawrence

Question 7

Tupac

Answer 7

Led rebellion against Spanish

Question 8

Potosí

Answer 8

Single richest silver deposit

Question 9

Royal African Company

Answer 9

Association of English investors, charters

Question 10

Atlantic System

Answer 10

New system that moved goods, wealth, people and cultures

Question 11

Dutch West India Company

Answer 11

Carried conflict of Spain’s overseas possession

Question 12

Manumission

Answer 12

Legal Freedom

Question 13

Mercantilism

Answer 13

Policies adopted by European states that disapproved of foreign trade

Question 14

Atlantic Circuit

Answer 14

Clockwise network of sea routes

Question 15

Songhai Empire

Answer 15

West Africa, drew its wealth from trans Saharan African trade

Question 16

Hausa

Answer 16

Trading cities in central Sudan

Question 17

Bornu

Answer 17

Illustrates several aspects of trans Saharan contacts

Question 18

Council of the Indies

Answer 18

In Spain, supervised virtually all operations in Spanish Colonies