Iberian Empires
This 1494 agreement moved the line dividing Spanish and Portuguese claims west of the Cape Verde Islands.
Treaty of Tordesillas
The Portuguese first established these trading posts in Brazil to exchange goods with Indigenous peoples.
What are feitorias?
The Treaty of Tordesillas gave Portugal a claim to this large northeastern part of South America.
What is Brazil
This cash crop made two early Portuguese settlements in Brazil prosper and helped drive the colony’s plantation economy.
sugar
Spain’s huge American colony, established in 1535 and governed from Mexico City, was called this.
New Spain
English mainland colonies on North America’s eastern coast grew this cash crop, while Caribbean colonies also produced rum and sugar.
what is tobacco?
This official, whose title literally means “vice king,” governed a Spanish colony for the monarch.
After selling a North American colony that later became New York, this European power retained settlements on Caribbean islands.
Who are the Dutch
These large Spanish colonies depended heavily on the world’s richest silver mines, sugar production, and natural dyes.
What are the Viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru?
This empire created fur-trading outposts in the far Pacific Northwest of the Americas.
Who are the Russians?