Slang

mestizos

• old-fashioned way to refer to someone with one black parent and one white parent

• 1. person of mixed blood, specifically European and American Indian ancestry

mulattoes-

• 1. person of mixed blood, specifically European and American Indian ancestry

• 1. old-fashioned way to refer to someone with one black parent and one white parent

New World

• Spanish conquistador who brought about the fall of the Inca empire

• 1. used to describe the newly discovered Americas during the European Age of Exploration; this is in contrast to the “Old World” of the eastern hemisphere, particularly Europe.

Francisco Pizarro

• 1.  Spanish conquistador who brought about the fall of the Inca empire

• 1.  the Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church

plantation

• a large area of land where crops are grown and harvested

• 1.  the Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church

pope

• 1. most dominant or important

• 1. the Bishop of Rome as head of the Roman Catholic Church

predominant

• 1. most dominant or important

• 1. three-legged route that made up the Atlantic slave trade, the trade flowed to and from three areas on either side of the Atlantic Ocean (Europe, Africa, and the Americas)

Triangle trade

• enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans to the Americas between 15th and 19th centuries (aka Triangular trade and the Middle Passage)

• three-legged route that made up the Atlantic slave trade, the trade flowed to and from three areas on either side of the Atlantic Ocean (Europe, Africa, and the Americas)

Transatlantic Slave trade

• enslavement and forced transportation of 12-15 million black Africans to the Americas between 15th and 19th centuries (aka Triangular trade and the Middle Passage)

• 1. treaty signed on June 7, 1494 separated the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the New World

Treaty of Tordesillas

• 1. treaty signed on June 7, 1494 separated the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the New World

• 1.  used to describe the newly discovered Americas during the European Age of Exploration; this is in contrast to the “Old World” of the eastern hemisphere, particularly Europe.