Age of Exploration (Ch 13)

Term: A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

• creole

• conquistador

• mita

• peninsulare

TERM: a system in which Native Americans were forced to pay tribute and 

provide labor to the Spanish landowners

• Columbian Exchange

• encomienda

• balance of trade

• mita

TERM: the exchange of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas

• Triangular Trade

• plantations

• colony

• Columbian Exchange

TERM: a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control

• subsidy

• tariff

• colony

• plantation

TERM: a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the 17th century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of bullion

• Capitalism

• Columbian Exchange

• Assimilation

• Mercantilism

TERM: gold and silver

• tariff

• mita

• conquistador

• bullion

TERM: the difference in value between what a nation imports and what it exports over time

• balance of trade

• encomienda

• Columbian Exchange

• subsidies

TERM: government payment to encourage or protect a certain economic activity

• bullion

• tariff

• subsidy

• mercantilism

TERM: tax on imported goods

• tariff

• colony

• mita

• plantation

TERM: large agricultural estate

• colony

• assimilation

• plantation

• Columbian Exchange