Strayer Chapter 14 – Flashcards

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The Great Dying
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1450-1750 : The massive epidemic caused by old world diseases after Columbian exchange. It killed ninety percent of natives..Long isolation from the afro-Eurasian world and the lack of most domesticated animals meant the absence of acquired immunities to Old World diseases, such as smallpox, measles, typhus, influenza, malaria and yellow fever
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The Columbian Exchange
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1450-1750: The exchange of plants, animals, culture and diseases between Europe and the Americans from the first contact through exploration and colonization. An acute labor shortage was created by the great dying in turn making room for immigrant new comers, both colonizing Europeans and enslaving Africans
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Peninsulares
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is a Spanish-born person residing in the New World or the Spanish East Indies. A person of full Spanish descent born in the Americas or Philippines, who were known as criollos.
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Mestizos
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a mix-raced population or person from a spaniard and a native american
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Mulattoes
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the product of Portuguese-African unions each indicating a different racial mixture which emerged in colonial Brazil.
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Plantation Complex
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1450-1750 : Colonies, such as those in south Africa, new Zealand, Algeria, Kenya and Hawaii where minority European populations lived among a majority of indigenous people -- based upon African slavery beyond the Caribbean and brazil to encompass the southern colonies of British North America where tobacco, cotton, rice and indigo where major crops were
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Settler Colonies
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1450-1750: Colonies in which the colonizing people settled in large numbers, rather than simply spending relatively small numbers to exploit the religion. Particularly noteworthy in the case of the British colonies in North America
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Creoles
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In colonial Spanish America, term used to describe someone of European descent born in the New World. Elsewhere in the Americas, the term is used to describe all non-native peoples.
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Mita
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Labor extracted for lands assigned to the state and the religion; all communities were expected to contribute; an essential aspect of Inca imperial control.
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Motecuzoma
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Emperor of the Aztecs. Died during a skirmish between Spanish forces and the residents of Tenochtitlan.
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Tenotchtitlan
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Capital of the Aztec Empire, located on an island in Lake Texcoco. Its population was about 150,000 on the eve of Spanish conquest. Mexico City was constructed on its ruins.
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Hernando Cortez
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A brash and determined Spanish adventurer, crossed the Hispaniola to mainland Mexico with six hundred men, seventeen horses and ten canons. Within three years, had taken captive the Aztec emperor Montezuma, conquered the rich Aztec empire and found Mexico City as the capital of New Spain.
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East Indies Company
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Joint stock company that obtained government monopoly over trade in Asia, acted as virtually independent government in regions it claimed.
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Christopher Columbus
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Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506).
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Ming Dynasty
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initially mounted huge trade expeditions to southern Asia and elsewhere, but later concentrated efforts on internal development within China.
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Zheng He
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An imperial eunuch and Muslim, entrusted by the Ming emperor Yongle with a series of state voyages that took his gigantic ships through the Indian Ocean, from Southeast Asia to Africa. (pp. 355, 422)
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Yongle
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Reign period of Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming Empire (r. 1403-1424).Sponsored the building of the Forbidden City, a huge encyclopedia project, the expeditions of Zheng He, and the reopening of China's borders to trade and travel (355)
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