WHAP Unit 4 Vocab

These joint stock companies acted as virtually independent governments in regions they claimed.

• British and Dutch East India Companies

• Encomiendas

• Limited Liability Corporations

• Politburo's

The southern tip of Africa that Europeans explorers traveled past on the way to India

• Cape of Gibraltar

• Cape Verde

• Cape of Good Hope

• Southern Cape

This disease carried to the New World by Europeans was responsible for the deaths of millions of Native Americans

• Smallpox

• Ebola

• West Nile Virus

• Malaria

People of mixed European and Native American (Indian) ancestry in Mesoamerica and South America

• Mestizos

• Creoles

• Peninsulares

• Domestiques

The Treaty of Paris resolved a dispute following which war?

• War of 1812

• Hundred Years' War

• Seven Years' War

• Battle of Chaldiran

The headquarters of the British East India Company in Indian subcontinent

• Calcutta

• Sierra Leone

• Bangladesh

• Madras

Grants of Indian laborers made to Spanish conquerors and settlers in Mesoamerica and South America

• Peninsulares

• Favelas

• Encomiendas

• Mitas

Spanish conquistador who led the expedition that defeated the Aztec Empire

• Francisco Pizarro

• Hernan Cortes

• Vasco de Gama

• Vasco de Balboa

Last independent emperor of the Aztec civilization; killed during the Spanish conquest of the empire

• Moctezuma II

• Quetzalcoatl

• Twantinsuyu

• Chimor

Treaty that resolved the dispute between Spain and Portugal regarding exploration in the New World

• Treaty of Paris

• Treaty of Versailles

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Treaty of Lisbon