Chapter 15 Vocab (World History)

Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s

Natural protection;resistance

Conquistador. A landowner in Cuba. Landed on the coast of Mexico with about 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons.

Capital city of the Aztec empire, on which modern-day Mexico City was built

An Indian woman that was Cortés' translator

Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense

An Aztec emporer

A Spaniard that was interested in Peru's Inca empire

War fought between two groups of people in the same nation

Representative who ruled one of Spain's provinces in the Americas in the king's name

The right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area

Bold priest that condemned the evils of the ecomienda system

Worker forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off a debt

Member of the highest class in Spain's colonies in the Americas

Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendant of Spanish settlers

Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was of Native American and European descent

Person In Spain in the Americas, person who was of African and European descent

Privately owned ship commissioned by a government to attack and capture enemy ships, especially merchants ships

French possessions in present-day Canada From the 1500s-1763

Money taken in through taxes

English Protestants who rejected the Church of England

An agreement among people

War between Britain and France in the Americas that happened from 1754 to 1763; it was part of a global war called the Seven Years War

Peace treaty made final in 1783 that ended the American Revolution

An enslaved African that formed part of an international trade network that arose during the 1500s

Colonial trade routes among Europe and it's colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves

The leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas

Revolt, especially of soldiers or sailors against their officers

The global exchange of goods, ideas, plants, animals, and disease that began with Columbus's exploration of the Americas

Economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available

Period in European history when inflation rose rapidly

Economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit

Person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit

Policy by which a nation sought export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver

Tax on imported goods

The shipment of raw materials from ____ to ____.

The shipment of manufactured goods from ____ to ____

The shipment of slaves and gold from ____ to ____.