World History Unit 5 Vocab

Historiography

The study of History/how history is made

conquistador

Spanish conquerors of America

Encomienda

right of land owners to use Native Americans as labors

Columbian Exchange

Transformed Economic activity Traded plants and animals

Triangular Trade

connected Americas, Africa, and Europe Included Slaves in trade

Colony

Settlement of people living in a new territory

mercantilism

Set of principles that dominated economic thought- there are a fixed amount of goods in the world/ balance of trade

Balance of Trade

the difference in value over a period of time of a country's imports and exports of merchandise

Subsidies

Money the Government gives to do something

plantation

Large agricultural estate

Middle Passage

journey of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas

Amerigo Vespucci

Florentine who wrote letter describing this new land, so they named this new land America, after him

King Afonso of Congo

tried to stop the slave trade in his country

Moctezuma

Leader of the Aztecs when Cortez shows up with the Spanish

Peninsulares

Spanish and Portuguese officials born in Europe

Creoles

Descendants of Europeans born in America

Mestizo

Offspring between Europeans and Native Americans

Mulattoes

Offspring between Africans and Europeans

Mita

Spanish Law so that Native Americans are forced to work in the Silver Mines.

Treaty of Tordesillas

the 1494 treaty the pope made dividing the new world between Spain and Portugal

Juna Ines de la Cruz

Mexican Nun who wrote poetry and fought for women to be educated.