Unit 2 Honors Vocab (WH)

Match the following

• Encomienda

• • used to refer to the trade in the 18th and 19th centuries that involved shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities which were in turn shipped back to Britain.

• Mercantilism

• the political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and absolute sovereignty,

• Absolute Monarchs

• the economic theory that trade generates wealth and is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government should encourage by means of protectionism.

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• 1. a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area.

• Triangular Trade

• Imaginary line that split the world between Spain and Portugal during the Age of Exploration.

Match the following

• Cortes

• Conquistador that conquered the Aztecs

• Puritans

• Conquered the Inca Empire

• Pilgrims

• a member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.

• Pizarro

• Chinese explorer who went on 7 voyages

• Zheng He

• the English settlers who traveled to America on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony