Chapter 15 Vocab (World History) – Flashcards
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Conquistador
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Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain in the 1500s and 1600s
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Immunity
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Natural protection;resistance
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Hernán Cortés
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Conquistador. A landowner in Cuba. Landed on the coast of Mexico with about 600 men, 16 horses, and a few cannons.
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Tenochtitlán
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Capital city of the Aztec empire, on which modern-day Mexico City was built
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Malinche
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An Indian woman that was Cortés' translator
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Alliances
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Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense
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Moctezuma I
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An Aztec emporer
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Francisco Pizarro
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A Spaniard that was interested in Peru's Inca empire
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Civil war
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War fought between two groups of people in the same nation
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Viceroys
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Representative who ruled one of Spain's provinces in the Americas in the king's name
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Encomienda
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The right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area
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Bartolomé de las Casas
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Bold priest that condemned the evils of the ecomienda system
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Peons
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Worker forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off a debt
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Peninsulares
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Member of the highest class in Spain's colonies in the Americas
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Creoles
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Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendant of Spanish settlers
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Mestizos
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Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was of Native American and European descent
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Mulattoes
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Person In Spain in the Americas, person who was of African and European descent
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Privateers
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Privately owned ship commissioned by a government to attack and capture enemy ships, especially merchants ships
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New France
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French possessions in present-day Canada From the 1500s-1763
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Revenue
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Money taken in through taxes
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Pilgrims
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English Protestants who rejected the Church of England
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Compact
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An agreement among people
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French and Indian War
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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
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Treaty of Paris
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Peace treaty made final in 1783 that ended the American Revolution
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Olaudah Equiano
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An enslaved African that formed part of an international trade network that arose during the 1500s
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Triangular trade
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Colonial trade routes among Europe and it's colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves
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Middle Passage
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The leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas
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Mutiny
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Revolt, especially of soldiers or sailors against their officers
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Colombian Exchange
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The global exchange of goods, ideas, plants, animals, and disease that began with Columbus's exploration of the Americas
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Inflation
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Economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available
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Price revolution
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Period in European history when inflation rose rapidly
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Capitalism
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Economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit
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Entrepreneurs
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Person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit
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Mercantilism
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Policy by which a nation sought export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver
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Tariff
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Tax on imported goods
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Americas to Europe
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The shipment of raw materials from ____ to ____.
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Europe to Africa
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The shipment of manufactured goods from ____ to ____
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Africa to America
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The shipment of slaves and gold from ____ to ____.
