Key Terms
The economic policy that aims to acquire precious metals like gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
The estimated indigenous population before the Age of Exploration.
What is over 50 million?
This disease was used as a biological weapon to kill the indigenous population.
What is Small Pox?
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World of Europe and Africa and the New World of the Americas.
The system implemented in the Spanish colonies to control the indigenous population.
What is the Encomienda System?
Spanish conqueror who first met with the Aztec Emperor?
Who is Hernan Cortes?
The Spanish political territories in the Americas.
What are viceroyalties?
The climate impact of the Great Dying.
What is Global Cooling?
It is a political, social, and economic idea in which nations aim to expand their control by taking over other nation’s land.
What is Globalism?
Primary industry of the indigenous people in MesoAmerica.
What is farming or agriculture?
Man who set the foundation for European exploration.
Who is Henry the Navigator?
The labor "solution" to the Great Dying?
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
The theory that a country becomes more powerful by taking weaker nations.
What is imperialism?
The last emperor of the Aztec Empire?
Who is Moctezuma?
The French and British colonize North America in their failed attempt to find this route.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The way slavery was changed with the Age of Exploration.
What is people could be born a slave?
When a company controls each part of production and sales of a good.
What is vertical integration?
The ritual of the Aztec people to the Sun God.
What is human sacrifice?
The intended destination of the Northwest Passage?
What is Asia and the Pacific Islands?
Percentage of the global population that died in the Great Dying.
What is 10%