WORLD HISTORY AGE OF EXPLORATION CH17

a ship invented by the Portuguese that made

it possible to travel long distances

• mita

• encomienda

• caravel

• peninsulares

leaders in the Spanish conquest of

the Americas

• peninsulares

• conquistadors

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• mita

seventeenth-century economic theory that

held that the prosperity of a nation depended

on a large supply of gold and silver

• mercantilism

• Columbian Exchange

• encomienda

• Middle Passage

sponsored the first Portuguese fleets to

explore the west coast of Africa

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Ferdinand of Aragon

• Isabella of Castille

• Henry VIII of England

exchange of plants and animals between

Europe and the Americas

• encomienda

• economics

• Stock Exchange

• Columbian Exchange

forced voyage of enslaved Africans across

the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

• Final Passage

• Doomed Passage

• Middle Passage

• Death Passage

settlement of people living in a new territory,

linked with the parent country by trade and

direct government control

• colony

• village

• fort

• tribe

Spanish and Portuguese officials who resided

temporarily in Latin America

• encomiendores

• peninsulares

• conquistadors

• legislators

forced labor system used by the Spanish in

colonial Latin America

• mita

• encomienda

• slavery

• indentured servitude

forced labor system used in colonial Peru to

draft indigenous workers to work in silver

mines

• mita

• encomienda

• slavery

• indentured servitude