The High Seas
What is a Caravel?
The Pope oversaw this treaty which separated the lands claimed by Spain and Portugal.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This group built a large powerful empire centered on Tenochitlan, present-day Mexico City.
Who are the Aztecs?
These type of companies promoted investment in voyages.
The part of the Triangular Trade that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This European power primarily sought to gain wealth in the Americas through trading furs, settling parts of Canada until challenged by the British.
What is France?
This group built a large empire in S. America, responsible for contructing Machu Pichu.
Who are the Inca?
Control of money, machinery became more important than control of land under this economic systems.
What is Capitalism?
These two monarchs were responsible for funding Columbus' expedition.
Who are Isabella and Ferdinand?
In New Spain, this system forced Native Americans to work 'in exchange' for conversion.
What is Encomienda?
What are the Plains?
Under this economic system, colonies exist to enrich the Mother country by creating markets for manufactured goods and a source for raw materials.
What is Mercantilism?
Many European powers sought to find this thorugh North America to reach Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This Spanish priest (a Dominican Friar) criticized the poor treatment of Native Americans in his A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.
Who is Bartolomé de las Casas?
This group had remarkable cities in the rainforests of Central America, known for their pyramids before the Aztecs.
Who are the Maya?
Society in New Spain was divided into this.
What is a caste (Casta) system?
Groups like the Pueblos in this region lived in caves as well as multistory masonry buildings.
What is the Southwest?
Under this system, the Spanish king imposed a tax on each enslaved person.
What is the Asiento System?