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WorksheetsLatin America & Age of Exploration
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
What divided the non-European world into 2 zones?
Line of Demarcation
slave trade
Joint-Stock Company
What do we call the rise in prices linked to an increase in the amount of money available?
investing
resources
inflation
The Spanish government gave conquistadors the right to demand labor from Native Americans
Manor system
Encomienda System
Caste System
What do we call Spanish conquerors are called
Conquistadors
missionaries
explorers
What happened to the Asian countries of Japan, China & Korea during the Age of Exploration?
they became Christians
they had a war
they became isolated
Who began the Age of Exploration?
Native Americans
Romans
Portuguese
The first meeting between Native Americans and Europeans was called
The Encounter
Columbian Exchange
Commercial Revolution
What was the Columbian Exchange?
Trade around the world started by Columbus
a social system
new business practices
Results of the Columbian Exchange
increase in population, Native American population decreased, cultural diffusion
encomienda system
inflation
Social system in Latin American colonies
Popes
Cardinals
Monks
Peninsulares
Creoles
Mestizos/Mulattos
Natives/Slaves
priests
warriors
merchants
peasants
What is a colony?
first meeting between the Europeans & Native Americans
territory settled & ruled by people from another country
where ants live
What is a mother country?
The country from which the settlers of a territory originally came
The country your mom was born in
agricultural area
What is mercantilism?
terrace farming
clearing the rainforest
where colonies enrich the mother country at the expense of the colony
example of a colony and mother country
Peru-Spain
Rome- Greece
China-Japan
two achievements of the Mayans
temples
hieroglyphics
printing press
Mona Lisa
chinampas
tribute
Two achievements of the Aztecs
chinese food
diseases
aqueducts
bridges
chinampas
road system
two achievements of the Incas
terrace farming
road system
pyramids
chocolate
calendars
taichtli
