VOCAB
Between A.D. 300 & 800, built remarkable cities in the rain forest of the Yucatan Peninsula; highly developed civilization.
Mayas
This treaty together with Portuguese Explorations established Portugal's claim to Brazil.Spain claimed the rest. Spain and Portugal moved the Pope's lined a few degrees to the West.
Treaty of Tordesillas
A disease that was important by the Europeans that natives have no immunity to, Millions died.
Smallpox
From Central Mexico, powerful empire. The capital, Tenochlitian, had a population of about 200,000.
Aztecs
Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to establish a settlement of the North Carolina coast in 1587, but failed.
Roanoke Island
An economic system where private individuals and businesses owned the tools, factories, and resources used to make Goods.
Capitalism
A cultivated crop that provided a stable food supply for the Mayas + Aztecs.
Corn (Maize)
In the early 1500s, certain questions in Germany, England, France, Holland, and other northern European countries revolted against the authority of the Pope in Rome.
Protestant Reformation
A business where many investors pooled their money together to fund a large project, such as establishing a colony.
Joint-Stock Company
A political union of five independent tribes who lived in the Mohawk Valley of New York. Seneca, Cayuga, Onodaga, Oneida, and Mohawk.
Iroquois Confederation
A formal Royal conference in Spain to debate the morality of Spanish colonization and the treatment of indigenous people in the Americas. Las Casa Vs. Juan Gines de Sepulveda.
Valladolid Debate
Spain's explorers and conquerors, they enriched Spain by 500%.
Conquistadores
A system which granted Spaniards control over a specific number of natives. The natives would work in return the Spanish would take care of them and make them Christian.
Encomienda
A brutal, forced voyage that transformed millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
Middle passage