Latin American History Vocab Flashcard

Main disease from Europeans to Natives causing many deaths.

Exchange of plants, animals, technologies, and ideas between the Old World and the New World.

Primary language in Brazil

Primary language in most of Latin America (excluding Brazil)

Term for native peoples or species of a place, e.g., Latin America's "indigenas".

Spanish conqueror/soldier of the Americas

Region including Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and South America; primarily Spanish and Portuguese speakers.

Term for the newly discovered Americas during the European Age of Exploration

Spanish agricultural plantations in colonial Latin America.

Enslavement and forced transport of 12-15 million Africans to the Americas (15th-19th centuries)