Vocab Quiz 17

"The mountain that eats men," where much of Spain's silver came from which caused gross inflation within the world market and eventually became Spain's undoing as they based their economy too heavily on silver and did not invest in other economic possibilities.  Too much of a good thing can be a very bad thing. 

• Repartimiento 
• Sucre
• Potosí
• Manila

A colonial forced labor system imposed upon the indigenous population of Spanish America and the Philippines. Similar to the Inca Mita system, it required the natives to do a certain amount of labor per week or per year.  

• Encomienda
• Indentured Servitude
• Repartimiento 
• The Middle Passage

As the African slave trade was necessitated by the labor shortage created by the Great Dying, this was the journey undertaken by enslaved West Africans in their journey to the Americas aboard the dismal conditions of slave ships.  

• The Gulf Stream
• Encomienda
• The Middle Passage
• Triangular Trade

Though later replaced by more sophisticated labor systems and slavery, this was a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area, essentially making them like the serfs in Europe.  

• Encomienda
• Repartimiento
• The Middle Passage
• African Diaspora

The term often used to describe the siphoning of money from Europe to pay for the luxury products of the East.  A process exacerbated by the fact that Europe had few trade goods that were desirable in Eastern markets; eventually the bulk of the worlds silver supply make its way to China. This demand set silver in motion around the world, with bulk of the worlds silver supply winding up in China and much of the rest elsewhere in Asia. Chinese, Portuguese, and Dutch traders flocked to Manila to sell Chinese goods in exchange for silver. The routes operated by this were extraordinarily numerous.

• Silver Drain
• Soft Gold
• Triangular Trade
• The Middle Passage

The unified government of Japan, named for the family who finally united Japan and who closed Japan to European traders realizing that the competing European empires could and would divide Japan.  

• The Heian Period
• The Meiji Restoration
• The Tokugawa Shogunate
• Potosi 

A term applied to animal furs, highly valued for their warmth and as symbols of elite status; in several regions, the fur trade generated massive wealth for those engaged in it. The profitability of that trade un furs was the chief incentive for Russia's rapid expansion during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries across Siberia, where it of fur- bearing animals was abundant.

• Soft Gold
• Encomienda
• Silver Drain
• Diaspora

The spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade, who brought into these new societies issues of race that endure still in the twenty-first century and introduced elements of African culture, such as religious ideas, musical and artistic traditions, and cuisine into the making of American cultures such as Santeria, Voodoo, Jazz, Creole, Blues, etc. 

• The Middle Passage
• Triangular Trade
• Repartimiento
• African Diaspora

An archipelago of Pacific islands colonized by Spain in a relatively bloodless process of economic and religious imperialism.  The capital of Manila would become a center of silver trade with China for the Spanish. 

• New Spain
• The Philippines 
• Triangular Trade
• Hispañola

For many centuries, Eastern goods had trickled into the Mediterranean through the Middle East from this massive, interconnected web of commerce that existed between Africa, Arabia, India, and East Asia and dated back to the beginning of sailing.  It wasn't until around 1500 that Europeans became a serious player on this trade network.  Even then their goods were not much desired for and their success depended upon their naval guns and willingness to be middlemen and silver merchants.  However, European naval militarism would eventually allow them to gain control of this lucrative trading area. 

• The Middle Passage
• Triangular Trade
• Indian Ocean Commercial Network
• Silver Drain