Spain And America Flashcards
Taino
Tribe or or people Columbus encountered and made his slave.
Christopher Columbus
Wanted glory. 1492, sailed for Spain in search of India.
Ferdinand Magellan
Sailed around the south end of South America and into the waters of the pacific
Colony
A land controlled by another country.
Conquistador
(Conquerors) the Spanish soldiers that participated in the American conquest in the 16th century.
Cajamarca
Pizarro conquered the inca near the city of Cajamarca
Reconquisa
A Reconquering
Mestizo
A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.
Encomienda
A grant of land made by Spain it a settler in America to have the native Americans as salves
Ponce de Leon
Landed in modern day Florida an claimed the territory for Spain.
Bartolome de cassas
Monk, suggested the the Spanish use Africans as slaves.
Popes rebellion
A rebellion that drove the Spanish back into new Spain.
Colombian exchange
The progress of gods and ideas going back an forth between Europe and the Americas.
Mercantilism
Obtain gold and silver an selling more than buying to get more money
Favorable balance of trade.
A economic situation in Which a country sells more good abroad then buys.
Capitalism
An economic system base on private ownership and on the investment of money into business to create more money
Joint stock company
A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose and share profits
Peninsulares
Spanish people who were most powerful
Iberian peninsula
Where the peninsulares came from: Spain and Portugal.
Creoles
Born to both Spanish parents in the Americas.
Mulattos
Mix of Spanish and blacks. Mostly in Brazil and the Caribbean
Caudillos
Political and military leaders in colonial Latin America
The enlightenment
The European philosophical movement that emphasized human reason and science.
Haitian revolution
Overthrew French an sugar colony. Contained slaves. Thy were unique: first free republic in Latin America 1790.
