Depopulation in some areas and depriving many African communities of their youngest and strongest men and women.
100
What group was at the top of the Spanish Social Class in Latin America?
peninsulares
100
Portuguese ship that was faster than previous models.
Caravel
100
a person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe
peninsulares
200
A ship that was faster than the previous models that the Portuguese invented.
What is the Caravel
200
The Passage from Africa to the Americas was known as what when it came to the Triangle Trade?
Middle Passage
200
The group that was just under the peninsulares.
Creoles
200
Spanish Conquerors in the Americas
conquistadors
200
a person of mixed African and European descent
mulatto
300
Christopher Columbus believed he would reach this place before he sailed off around the world.
Where is Asia?
300
What were the other two countries, outside of Spain and Portugal, that were trading powers?
The Dutch and England
300
Peninsulares and creoles considered all other classes in the social structure to be ___________.
socially inferior
300
to send a product or service for sale in another country
What is export
300
Other groups emerged as a result of ______________.
unions/marriage
400
The Spanish conquerors of the Americas.
What is conquistadors
400
____________ and trade drove the Columbian Exchange, which led to the establishment of plantations.
What is Colonization
400
To maintain a supply of labor, the Spanish continued to make use of what type of system?
Encomienda
400
a large agricultural estate
plantation
400
a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently
Creole
500
In early 1531, Francisco Pizarro landed on the Pacific coast of South America with only a small band of about ________ men.
What is 180
500
believed that the prosperity of a nation depends on a large supply of bullion, or gold and silver.
What is Mercantilism
500
In Peru, the Spanish used an arrangement known as the mita, which allowed authorities to __________ indigenious labor to work in the silver mines.
labor
500
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
the Middle Passage
500
a person of mixed European and native American Indian descent