Vocabulary Flashcards
A conqueror, esp. one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
Conquistador
A widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable disease, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian.
Colombian exchange
Belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
Mercantilism
An economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Capitalism
An acute contagious viral disease, with fever and pustules usually leaving permanent scars. It was effectively eradicated through vaccination by 1979.
Small pox
A multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.
Triangular trade
The sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
Middle passage
Belonging to or associated with former times, esp. when considered quaint and attractive.
Old world
The Americas; the western hemisphere.
New world
A person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
Slave
A form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the American colonies and elsewhere.
Indentured Servant
Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)
Christopher Columbus
Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico (1485-1547)
Hernan Cortes
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)
Francisco Pizarro
(June 7, 1494), agreement between Spain and Portugal aimed at settling conflicts over lands newly discovered or explored by Christopher Columbus and other late 15th-century voyagers.
Treaty of Tordesillas
