Part 3:European Exploration of the Americas
Cocoa Beach jr/sr high 8th grade Mrs. Reddick Midterm Study Guide 2007-2008
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- incan empire
- former region of Mexico once under Aztec control
- What was the Middle Passage?
- The middle leg of the triangalar trade route - the voyager from Africe to the Americas - that brought captured Africans into slavery
- encomiendas
- a grant of Native American labor
- Who brought them and why?
- Slave traders brought them because in the Americas there was a demand for cheap labor and the traders wanted to make money
- Northwest Passage
- a water route through North America to Asia
- enslaved africans
- were used as cheap labor to build industries
- What was one long-term effect of slavery?
- some people still think there's something wrong with you if you're african {KKK}
- mercantilism
- an economic system in which nations increase their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade
- benefit of colonies
- squash, sweet potatoes, peppers, pumpkins, tobacco, turkeys, pineappls, peanuts, cacao, potatoes, beans, tomatoes, vanilla, and corn
- What was the Columbian Exchange?
- the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western and Eastern hemispheres
- haciendas
- a large farm or estate
- spainish colonies
- spain defeated the Aztecs and built Mexico city
- What was an important affect of the Spanish Armada?
- Spain's image suffered, the world saw that Spain could be beaten
- Aztec empire
- lead by emperor Montezume the Aztecs originally defeated the spainish but the spainish came back and defeated them through war and disease
- What were the goals?
- find gold, spices, and spread their raligion
- society
- a group of persons regarded as forming a single community