Spanish Colonies
The main source of money for Spanish colonies
What is silver mining?
Form of agriculture that dominated Brazilian economy
What is sugar production?
Group of people who came to New World to escape religious persecution in England
Who are Pilgrims and Puritans?
Goods that natives wanted from French settlers in return for fur
What are guns?
A system used by kings to prevent over extension
What is feudalism?
The labor system that divided up natives among settlers
What is the encomienda system?
The religion that Portuguese missionaries wished to convert natives to
What is Christianity?
Trade that English settlement in the Carolinas relied on and disrupted the natural balance of plants and animals in forests
What is the fur trade?
Fur of these animals that French colonial economy depended on
What are deer and beavers?
Small farming communities that were lead by nobles
What are manors?
The forced labor system that forced natives to work for settlers for a certain period of time
What is the mita labor system?
This group of people were the main source of forced labor in Portuguese colonies
Who are enslaved Africans?
London investors who took up the challenge of colonizing Virginia
What is the Virginia Company?
French were compelled to treat these people as allies and trading partners
Who are native people?
Agriculture workers who worked for nobles
Who are serfs?
Spanish conquistador that led the fall of the Aztecs
Who is Hernan Cortes?
People that the Catholic clergy hoped to convert first?
Who are Amerindian elites?
System of forced labor that allowed people to pay for passage to colonies by working for a set term
What are indentured servants?
French fur traders of mixed Amerindian fur traders that lived among Amerindians in North America
Who are coureurs de bois?
Boats used by vikings that could go into rivers and oceans
What are longboats?
One of the richest silver mining centers in South American, located in Bolivia
What is Potosi?
Place where Portugal focused its resources on in early sixteenth century because settlers didn't find mineral wealth or rich native empires in Brazil
Where is Asia and Africa?
Plants that South Carolina's economy depended on
What are indigo and tobacco?
Mixed children of French settlers and indigenous women that helped direct the fur trade
Who are metis?
The population increase in Medieval Europe caused an increase in this
What is poverty?