Vocabulary
An extreme or widespread shortage of food
What is a famine?
The act of giving or receiving one thing for another.
What is exchange?
A raw material that can be bought, sold, or traded
What is a commodity?
The forced voyage of enslaved people across the Atlantic from Africa to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
Sailing for Spain, he reached the Caribbean in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The study of human populations (size, density, etc.)
What is demographic?
To have complete control over a service or raw material is known as a _________.
What is a monopoly?
Money or wealth owned or used by a person or private business.
What is capital?
Many enslaved people would work on these large agricultural estates, known as this
What is a plantation?
This was the first country to build a sea-based trading empire
What is Portugal?
A group of people joined together in an alliance or league.
What is a confederation?
The act of moving from one region or place to another.
What is migration?
To spend with the intention of gaining some benefit in return.
What is invest?
In 1680, this Uprising had expelled the Spanish from the area of present-day New Mexico for over a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt?
This country and empire used colonies in the Americas for silver and resources
What is Spain?
A person who works without pay for a set term or period of time.
What is an indentured servant?
This European animal helped reshaped life and warfare on the North American continent.
What is a horse?
An economic system where prices are set by unrestricted competition between private businesses.
What is free market?
Spanish conquistadors would win control over the Inca through military conquest, also called ________
What is subjugation?
Virginia tobacco, grown in the American colonies, is an example of this, or a plant grown for sale.
What is a cash crop?
A person who desires to convert others to their set of religious beliefs
What is a missionary?
This disease killed the largest share of Native American Indians.
What is smallpox?
Joint-stock companies allowed investors to fund overseas trade and were invented in this country
What is the Netherlands (Dutch)
After conquering rival groups, the Aztecs would demand payment or _________ in exchange for protection.
What is tribute?
What is the difference between maritime empires and land-based empires?
What is maritime = trade/sea control, land-based = territory/land armies