Fall Final

a colony

• Columbian Exchange
• Northwest Passage
• viceroyalties
• viceroy

the exchange of plants, animals, microbes, people, and ideas between Europe and the Americas, following Columbus’s first voyage to the Western Hemisphere

• circumnavigate
• Columbian Exchange
• joint-stock company
• capitalism

a legal system that allowed each settler in the Spanish Americas to extract tribute, mainly in labor, from a certain number of Native Americans

• mercantilism
• encomienda
• joint-stock company
• indentured servatude

a free-market economic system in which businesses are privately owned and exist for the purpose of making profits

• mercantilism
• Columbian Exchange
• joint-stock company
• capitalism

a business enterprise funded by the sale of shares to multiple investors

• mercantilism
• Columbian Exchange
• joint-stock company
• capitalism

to travel completely around the world

• caravel
• circumnavigate
• Columbian Exchange
• Northwest Passage

Which Spanish explorer invaded the Inca Empire seeking gold and silver?

• A Hernán Cortés
• B Francisco Pizarro
• C Ferdinand Magellan
• D Vasco Núñez Balboa

Which two countries established the Line of Demarcation in the Treaty of Tordesillas?

• A Spain and England
• B Spain and Portugal
• C the Netherlands and Spain
• D Portugal and the Netherlands

What was Christopher Columbus’s goal when he set out on his historic voyages?

• to test navigational tools
• to explore North America
• to find a western sea route to Asia
• to establish colonies in the Caribbean

What was a negative effect of the Columbian Exchange?

• Chocolate became popular in Europe.
• Diseases killed millions of Native Americans.
• Rice could be grown only in highly irrigated areas.
• Horses became important to Native American culture.