Slavery
a large estate used for cultivating commercial crops such as rubber, tea, cotton, sugar, or coffee
What is a Plantation?
a crop grown for sale to others rather than for personal use
What is a cash crop?
a high-ranking social class, having special privileges and influence
aristocracy
the act or process of forming colonies (territories governed by a distant country, often occupied by a number of citizens
of that country
What is Colonization?
He sailed the blue in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
to cause to be a slave or to be in a condition of bondage
What is enslave?
a raw material that can be bought and sold
What is a commodity?
an extreme and widespread shortage of food
What is famine?
of or relating to the study of human populations, involving statistical analysis of size, distribution, density, migration, fertility, and the like
What is a demographic?
What area of what would be the Americas did Christopher Columbus land on?
What is the Carribean?
the ownership of a person as property or chattel
What is chattel slavery?
of or pertaining to the production and distribution of goods, wealth, and services
What is economics?
a person who is bound to work without pay in the service of another for a specified length of time, especially in exchange for the cost of travel, food, and lodging
What is an indentured servant?
to win mastery (control) over, as by military conquest
What is to subjugate?
The people who Cortes massacred in 1521
the entire body of workers, especially as distinguished from management
What is labor?
the act or result of giving or receiving one thing for another
What is to exchange?
to spend with the intention of gaining some benefit
What is to invest?
having origin in a country or locality; native
What is indigenous?
Who are the people who funded Columbus?
the selfish or unfair using of someone or something for one’s own advantage
What is exploitation?
an economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses
What is the free market?
the doctrine, developed in the West after the decline of feudalism, that a nation’s economy could be strengthened by governmental protection of home industries, by increased foreign exports, and by accumulating gold and silver
What is mercantilism?
the act or process of migrating (to move from one region to another)
What is migration?
The present day country where the Aztec Empire was located
What is Mexico?