European Thought
This idea shaped how Europeans thought about the impact of the Americas on Europeans.
Humoralism
This chief encountered the English colonists at Roanoke.
Wingina
This was the prevailing economic theory regarding trade in the early modern period.
Mercantilism
This man became Lord Protector of England after the English Civil War.
Oliver Cromwell
This was used as a justification for enslaving captives.
Just War Theory
The brother of Powhatan, this man was responsible for a series of devastating attacks on Virginia in the 1620s.
Opechancanough
This company advocated conversion of Indigenous peoples through trade.
Virginia Company
This was the plan that the English developed to invade and conquer Spanish American in 1655.
The Western Design
In Roman legal thought, this described the laws related to international relations.
Jus Gentium
This city in present-day Virginia was assumed by Ralph Lane to be incredibly wealthy.
Chaunis Temoatan
This company got the Spanish asiento contract in 1713.
The South Sea Company
This man's ear started a massive war that ended the British asiento.
Robert Jenkins
After the War of the Spanish Succession, Queen Ann's Tory advisors pushed this concept for the future of the British Empire.
Blue-Water Empire
This group encountered the English and French in the Lesser Antilles and used them as allies.
The Kalinago
These two Indigenous societies agreed to trade relations with the French in Louisiana.
Choctaw and Chickasaw
This supposed massacre happened in the East Indies as a result of trade disputes between the English and Dutch.
The Amboyna Massacre
This document was read to Indigenous societies and, the Spanish believed, justified conquest.
The Requerimiento
This Indigenous society has long been an enemy of the Aztecs and allied with Cortés.
Tlaxcalla
This African Kingdom provided early Portuguese traders war captives who the Portuguese sold on the Gold Coast.
The Kingdom of Benin
This man seized the some of the first ships carrying Spanish American treasure from Mesoamerica.
Jean de Fleury