vocab 3 Flashcards
- Christopher Columbus
exploring the seas, went to sail for another route to the asia, but instead went to the Caribbean’s ( america )
- Colonies
“a land controlled by another nation.”
- Hernando Cortes
conquered all of Mexico including the Aztecs
- Conquistadors
“the Spanish soldiers, explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americas in the 16th century. ”
- Francisco Pizarro
“South America. He conquered the Incan Empire, ”
- reconquista
“the effort by Christian leaders to drive the Muslims out of Spain, lasting from the 1100s until 1492.”
- peninsulares
“in Spanish colonial society, colonists who were born in Spain.”
- Mestizo
“a person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry.”
- Encomienda
“a grant of land made by Spain to a settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it.”
- Atlantic Slave Trade
“the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas. ”
- Triangular Trade
“the transatlantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in the Americas.”
- Middle Passage
“the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves—so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade.”
- Columbian Exchange
“the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.”
- Capitalism
“an economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make a profit.”
- Joint-stock Company
“a business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits.”
