Vocabulary
what do u call a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas?
Conquistador
who explored the New England coastline of the Americas on behalf of England?
John Cabot
What were the three reasons why Europe wanted to begin exploration?
1. Glory
2. Gold
3. God
What do u call: a settlement of people in a new territory, linked with parent country by trade and direct government control?
A Colony.
Who had letters describing the land which led to the use of the name America?
Amerigo Vespucci
Name three things that came to America from the Columbian change.
example: cattle, honeybees, horses, citrus fruit, and wheat.
What did they call the forced voyage of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas?
The Middle Passage
Who was Juana Ines de la Cruz?
Wrote poetry and prose and urged that women should be educated.
Describe Three major factors that allowed the Spanish to defeat the Aztecs and Incas.
1. firearms
2. organizational skills
3. determination
What is the name for payments made to support enterprises a government thinks are beneficial?
Subsidies
Who landed in South America in 1500
Pedro Cabral
List four economic factors that contributed to the Commercial Revolution.
1. trade
2. exploration
3. colonization
4. new financial practices
what is the name of a system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas?
Encomienda
Rank the social classes in the colonies from highest to lowest.
Peninsulares, Creoles, Mestizos, mulattos, Africans and Native Americans.