Mesoamerica and Exploration Vocabulary Review

A land controlled by another nation.

• Colony
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo
• Dutch East India Company

a hard, glassy volcanic rock used by early peoples to make sharp weapons.

• Obsidian
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo

Treaty between Spain and Portugal dividing newly discovered lands between them.

• Treaty of Tordesillas
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo

One of the nomads who invaded the Indian subcontinent in the 16th century and established a powerful empire there.

• Mughal
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo

an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought.

• Mercantilism
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo

a conflict between Britain and France for control of territory in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763.

• French and Indian War
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo

the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.

• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo
• Dutch East India Company

in the Inca Empire, the requirement that all able-bodied subjects work for the state a certain number of days each year.

• Mita
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo

the global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occurred during the European colonization of the Americas.

• Columbian Exchange
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Daimyo
• Dutch East India Company

a company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade throughout Asia.

• Dutch East India Company
• Atlantic Slave Trade
• Colony
• Columbian Exchange
• Daimyo