ap world history unit 4 vocab

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caravel

portuguese and spanish, 75 ft ship for long voyage purposes

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carrack

portugese, 150 ft ship for trade purposes

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fluyt

dutch, 80 ft ship for trade purposes

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maritime empires

this extensive trade transformed spain, portugal great britain, france and holland into ____

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mercantilism

a system in which a country attempts to amass wealth through trade with other countries, exporting more than it imports and increasing stores of gold and precious metals

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trading post empires

based on small outposts, rather than control of large territories for the intention of trade

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galleons

spanish ships that made stops in the philippines to trade silver to the chinese

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conquistadores

spanish soldiers such as francisco pizarro and hernan cortes that came to the new world

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columbian exchange

the global exchange of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the eastern and western hemispheres

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african diaspora

the dispersion of africans out of africa

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indentured servitude

arrangements through which servants contracted to work for a specifies period of years in exchange for passage

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chattel slavery

a system in which individuals were considered property to be bought and sold

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encomienda

landowners compelled indigenous people to work for them in exchange for food and shelter, as landowners required of serfs in europe’s manorial system

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hacienda system

landowners developed agriculture on their lands—wheat, fruit, vegetables, and sugar. they used coerced labor to work the fields.

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commercial revolution

the transformation to a trade-based economy using gold and silver

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joint-stock companies

owned by investors who bought stock or shares in them

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casta system

race-based hierarchy in the spanish new world, valuing spanish blood over others

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creoles

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peninsulares

those who were born on the iberian peninsula

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mestizos

mixed european and indigenous ancestry

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mulattos

those of mixed european and african ancestry

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santeria

originally an african faith that became popular in cuba and then traveled throughout latin america and to north america

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vodun

belief system originating with african peoples of dahomey, kongo, and yoruba who were enslaved and living in saint-domingue, which is now haiti

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viceroys

administrators and representatives of the spanish crown

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metacom’s war

a result of english colonist using underhand tactics in their continuing pressure to control native american lands; king philip’s war

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maroon societies

descendants of africans who ad escaped slavery in jamaica who formed independent settlements

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