Chapter 17 - The Age of Exploration Review

a ship invented by the Portuguese that made it possible to travel long distances

• caravel

• conquistadors

• mercantilism

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Columbian Exchange

leaders in the Spanish conquest of the Americas

• caravel

• conquistadors

• mercantilism

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Columbian Exchange

seventeenth-century economic theory that held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

• caravel

• conquistadors

• mercantilism

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Columbian Exchange

sponsored the first Portuguese fleets to explore the west coast of Africa

• caravel

• conquistadors

• mercantilism

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Columbian Exchange

exchange of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas

• caravel

• conquistadors

• mercantilism

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Columbian Exchange

forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

• Middle Passage

• colony

• peninsulares

• encomienda

• mita

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

• Middle Passage

• colony

• peninsulares

• encomienda

• mita

Spanish and Portuguese officials who resided temporarily in Latin America

• Middle Passage

• colony

• peninsulares

• encomienda

• mita

forced labor system used by the Spanish in colonial Latin America

• Middle Passage

• colony

• peninsulares

• encomienda

• mita

forced labor system used in colonial Peru to draft native workers to work in silver mines

• Middle Passage

• colony

• peninsulares

• encomienda

• mita