Ch. 4 The Age of Exploration

A ship invented by the Portuguese that made it possible to travel long distances.

• Caravel

• Mita

• colony

• peninsulares

Name of the "leaders" in the Spanish conquest of the Americas.

• encomienda

• conquistadors

• mita

Economic Theory that held that the prosperity "wealth" of a nation depended on a large supply of Gold and Silver.

• colony

• Middle Passage

• mercantilism

He sponsored the first Portuguese fleets to explore the West Coast of Africa.

• Columbus

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Cortes

The exchange of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas

• mercantilism

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

Forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange

• Mita

• Middle Passage

Settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control.

• Colony

• Caravel

• Conquistadors

Spanish and Portuguese officials who resided temporarily in Latin America.

• Peninsulares

• Creoles

• caravel

Forced labor system used by the Spanish in colonial Latin America.

• Mita

• Encomienda

• Peninsulares

Forced labor system used in Peru to draft natives to work in silver mines.

• encomienda

• mita

• caravel