The Exploration

Question 1

Treaty of Tordesillas (1494)

Answer 1

Pope Alexander VI divided new lands between Portugal and Spain. Portugal got Africa (and Brazil) and Spain got New World

Question 2

Encomienda

Answer 2

The economic system of forced labor in South America and the Caribbean, almost slavery. Spanish Colonial version of plantations.

Question 3

Dutch East India Company

Answer 3

Dutch company founded in 1602, created a permanent pool of capital to sustain trade and resulted in a dramatic expansion of commerce with Asia.

Combined government management of trade with both public and private investment.

Question 4

Slave Trade

Answer 4

The Triangle Trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe. European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa.

Question 5

Mercantilism

Answer 5

This was an economic strategy where nations created a “favorable” balance of trade where one’s country exported more than it imported.

Question 6

Three Gs

Answer 6

GOLD | GLORY | GOD

Question 7

Viceroys / Viceroyalties

Answer 7

A regal official who runs a country, colony, city, or province, in the name of and as the representative of the monarch of the territory.

Question 8

what were the 4 Viceroyalties?

Answer 8

• New Spain.
• Peru.
• Río de la Plata.
• New Granada.

Question 9

what did the Europeans bring to the Americas?

Answer 9

LIVESTOCK (horses, cattle, pigs, sheep)
CROPS (wheat, rice, sugar cane, tobacco, etc.)
DISEASES (smallpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria, the flu, scarlet fever, whooping cough, etc.)

Question 10

what did the Natives give to the Europeans?

Answer 10

LIVESTOCK (turkey, furs)

CROPS (corn, pumpkins, beans, squash, potatoes, tomatoes)