The Mountain that Eats Men
This is the name of the mountain that eats men
What is Potosi?
This economic theory said that a nation grows wealthy by exporting more than it imports
What is mercantilism?
This Spanish labor system granted colonists the legal right to demand labor from Indigenous people in exchange for converting them to Christianity (in theory)
What is the encomienda system?
What is West Africa?
This civilization was connected by bridges over mountains
Who are the Incas?
This is what people were mining from the mountain.
What is silver?
This economic theory said that the world has a finite (fixed) amount of wealth.
What is mercantilism?
This labor system required a percentage of men to work. Initially, it was started by the Inca, and then used and changed by the Spanish
What is the mita?
This term was coined to describe the population collapse of the Americas
What is the Great Dying?
This civilization made cyclical calendars
Who are the Mayans?
This is the system that forced a certain percentage of men to work in the mines
What is the mita system?
This is the trade that went from the Americas to Europe to Africa back to the Americas.
What is triangle trade?
These 1542 Spanish laws attempted to change the encomienda system, but they weren't enforced and colonists just ignored them.
What are the New Laws (Leyes Nuevas)?
This is the percent of the Aztecs that died due to disease
Over 90%
This civilization built a city on a lake.
Who are the Aztecs?
so much Spanish silver entered circulation that it caused this economic phenomenon (a general rise in prices) across Europe and Asia
What is inflation?
In this leg of the triangle trade, people were transported against their will.
What is the middle passage?
This is the estimated number of people that Europeans forced out of Africa.
What is about 12 million?
This is one of the diseases that spread from Europe to the Americas.
This civilization was known for the mounds they built filled with artifacts
Who are the Mississsippians?
Miners used this poisonous element in the extraction process.
What is mercury?
This was what the Americas sent to Europe.
What are raw materials?
This is the name of the religious figure that spoke out about the forced labor system in the Americas
This is the word for diseases spread from animals to people
What is zoonosis?
This was the name of the Aztec leader that met with Cortez.
Who is the Montezuma?