Vocabulary Flashcards
a conqueror of one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century.
Conquistador
The Columbian Exchange was a widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable disease, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres
Columbian 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
western hemisphere: the hemisphere that includes North America and South America
New world
someone who is legally owned by another person and is forced to work for that person without pay.
Slave
Indentured servitude was a form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the American colonies and else where
Indentured servant
Columbus: 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.
Hernan Cortez
Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541)
Francisco Pizarro
To divide trading and colonizing rights for all newly discovered lands of the world between Portugal and Spain to the exclusion of other European nations
Treaty of Tordesillas
