Unit 3 Vocab Quiz

What is the term for the introduction of new ideas or something new?

• Navigation

• Innovation

• Consolidation

• Mercantilism

What does the term navigation refer to?

• To conquer new lands

• To grow cash crops

• To sail or travel over a large stretch of water or land

• To create alliances

Who were the Spanish and Portuguese explorers sent to conquer new territories?

• Colonizers

• Conquistadors

• Empire builders

• Navigators

What was the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world called?

• Triangular Trade

• Encomienda System

• Columbian Exchange

• Casta System

What do we call a group of nations or peoples under one ruler or government?

• Empire

• Colony

• Encomienda

• Plantation

What is the act of sending settlers to a new place to take political control?

• Consolidation

• Colonization

• Mercantilism

• Navigation

What is an area controlled politically by a more powerful country?

• Encomienda

• Empire

• Colony

• Casta System

What is an economic system where the mother country benefits at the colony’s expense?

• Navigation

• Mercantilism

• Plantation System

• Innovation

What system categorized people by race in Spanish colonial rule?

• Triangular Trade

• Encomienda System

• Casta System

• Mercantilism

What large farms were used for growing cash crops like sugar?

• Empires

• Plantations

• Colonies

• Navigations