Lessons 1/2
What is the name for a small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold, 3 masts and lateen sails?
What is a Caravel?
What is the term for the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas?
What is the Middle Passage?
what is the term for the right granted by Queen Isabella for Spanish landowners to use Native American a laborers?
What is Encomienda?
What explorer sailed from Spain in 3 caravels and landed on the island of San Salvador calling the natives there Indians?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
What peaceful tribe of native Americans were completely wiped oout by Columbus and his men?
Who were the Taino Indians?
What is the term for a leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas?
What is a Conquistador?
What is the term for a person born on the Iberian peninsula who resided in latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe
What were Peninsulares?
What is the term for the labor system that the Spanish administrators used in Peru to draft native people to work?
What is Mita?
What Chinese Explorer had the largest ships of the time and should have been one of the most famous explorers of the age of exploration?
Wha was Zheng He?
What central American empire took the longest for the Spanish to conquer and had an a lot of cities and temples on the Yucatan peninsula?
Who were the Mayans?
What is the term for a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with a parent country by trade a direct government control?
What is a Colony?
what is the term for a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanantly?
What is Creole?
What English Privateer became the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe stealing massive amounts of Spanish Gold in the process?
Who was Sir Francis Drake?
Who was an Italian explorer, navigator and popular author from the Republic of Florence for whom "America" is named?
Who was Amerigo Vespucci?
What Native American empire had their capital built on a large lake called Teotihuacán and were ruled by a great and powerful emperor named Cautemoc who died from smallpox?
Who were the Aztecs?
What is the term for the idea that the prosperity of a given nation depended on a large supply of Gold of Silver?
What is Mercantilism?
What is the term for a person of mixed European and native American descent?
What is Mestizo?
Who was a Portuguese mariner, explorer and nobleman who discovered the first maritime route between Europe and India>
Who was Vasco Da Gama?
Who was a Spanish conquistador, best known for his expeditions that led to the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire?
Francisco Pizarro?
What large empire in south America was conquered by Pizarro and had incredible cities and teples built high in the Andes mountains in what is now Peru?
Who were the Incas?
What is the term for a large agricultural estate?
What is a plantation?
what is the term for a person of mixed African and European Descent?
What is Mulatto?
Who was the Spanish Conquistador the conquered the Aztec Empire with the help of smallpox and some other local native allies?
Who was Hernan Cortez?
Who was a British Royal Navy officer, explorer, and cartographer who led three voyages of exploration to the Pacific and Southern Oceans between 1768 and 1779?
Who was Captain James Cook?
What was the nickname given to an enslaved Indigenous woman who served as translator, guide, and advisor to Hernan Cortes, and at times as lover bearing him his first son?
Who was La Malinche?