Continental Effect
Systems
Social
Colonization
People
100

What resource brought Spain the most wealth in the 1500s?

Gold & Silver

100

A business organization where individuals buy shares of ownership, helping fund overseas ventures for shared profits.

Joint-Stock Company

100

Which group held the highest status in colonial Latin America

Peninsulares  

100

What was a major effect of Spanish conquest on Native Americans?

Spread of diseases that caused large population decline

100

Landed in the Caribbean, believed it was Asia

Christopher Columbus

200

What was one main reason Spain wanted to explore and colonize the Americas?

To gain wealth and spread Christianity 

200

Colonies economic police to increase national wealth and power for mother country

Mercantilism

200

Offspring of Europeans and Native Americans were called?

Mestizos 

200

Which crop was a major source of wealth in the Caribbean?

Sugarcane

200

Which conquistador conquered the Aztec Empire?

Hernan Cortez 

300

The global transfer of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Europe, Africa, and the Americas following Columbus’s voyages.

The Columbian Exchange 

300

Which system gave Spanish settlers the right to tax and use Native Americans for slave labor?

The Encomienda System

300

People of mixed European and African ancestry in colonial Latin America.

Mulattoes

300

Which European two nations eventually challenged Spanish and Portuguese control of trade?

France and Britain

300

Which conquistador led the defeat of the Inca Empire?

Francisco Pizarro 

400

The voyage that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas

The Middle Passage

400

A period of European economic expansion marked by new trade routes, banking systems, and the rise of capitalism.

Commercial Revolution

400

Which group was second to the top of colonial Latin America’s social structure?

Creoles 

400

Which missionary group established more than 30 missions in Paraguay?

Jesuits 

400

Priest who argued against slavery and mistreatment of Native Americans

Bartolomé de Las Casas

500

What was the result of Spanish landowners’ farming practices?

Deforestation and destruction of land 

500

The difference between a nation’s imports and exports; favorable when exports exceed imports is called?

Balance of Trade

500

Why did mestizos eventually rise in status?

Their growing numbers made them more important in society - became the majority

500

Which two viceroyalties were the first established by Spain?

New Spain & Peru (or Viceroyalty of Lima)

500

A Mexican nun and writer who supported women’s education (Last names is accepted)

Juana Inés de la Cruz