Conquest (1)
Who conquered the Aztec Emprie?
Hernan Cortes
Who conquered the Incan Empire?
Pizzarro
material wealth available to produce more wealth
Capital
people are property and could be bought and sold
Chattel Slavery
Capital of the Aztec Empire
Tenochtitlan
Capital of the Incan Empire
Cuzco
slave fortresses/castles that were holding pens on the African coastline “Point of no return”
Barracoons
individuals born in the Americas but are of Spanish origin
Creoles
What disease had the greatest impact on the Indigenous people?
Smallpox
What year did Columbus explore the ocean blue?
1492
investors financed trade by buying shares in corporations such as the British East India Company
Joint Stock Companies
3 segments of trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Triangular Trade
What were the 4 Motivations exploration.
God
Glory
Gold
Spices
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Movement of goods and diseases between hemispheres
Spain and Portugal divided the Americas along the Line of Meridian
Treaty of Tordesillas
Spanish administrators/officials representing and acting on behalf of the Spanish crown.
Viceroys
Who was the Incan leader that was captured?
Atahualpa
What was an advantage the Europeans had?
Guns, Weapons, and Armor
Alliances (Cortes)
Civil War before arriving (Pizzaro)
Disease
Horses
landowners forced indigenous people to work getting gold and other resources in exchange for food and shelter
Encomienda System
Europeans who would agree to seven years of labor in exchange for passage to the Americas and room and board.
Indentured Servitude