History:Chapter 16 Vocab
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- Moctezuma
- Aztec Emperor Who lost to the Spanish
- Boers
- Dutch farmers
- creole
- second in class, colonists born of pininsular families
- French and Indian War
- war raging form 1754 to 1763 between the French and Native Americans
- Entrepreneur
- person who assumes financial risks in the hope of making a profit
- plantation
- large estates run by an owner or an owner's overseer
- Francisco Pizarro
- captured Atahualpa after killing many of his followers
- Treaty of Paris
- officially ended the worldwide war
- alliance
- groups that agreed to help one another fight
- Missionary
- someone sent on a religious mission
- Peru
- where Spanish forces landed and went on to conquer much of South America
- peninsular
- top of the social ruling class
- Inflation
- an economic cycle that sees prices rise
- New France
- from Quebec to the Great Lakes and down the Mississippi to Louisiana and the Gulf of Mexico
- Triangular Trade
- three leged trade network
- Bartolome de las Casas
- bold priest who condemned the evils of the ecomienda system
- King Louis XIV
- set out to strengthen royal power and boost revenues from his oversea empires
- Hernan Cortez
- among the earliest Spanish conquistadors who headed inward toward Tenochtitlan and conquered the Aztecs
- Joint Stock Company
- gave people the oppurtunity to pool capitals for oversea adventures
- Zulu Kingdom
- led by Shaka into many violent wars in order to gain more power
- civil war
- war fought between groups of people in the same nation
- Mercantalism
- economic policy aimed st strengthening naational economy
- conquistador
- conqueror
- viceroys
- representatives who ruled in the king's name
- Great Trek
- trek north in order to escape British power
- Tariff
- taxes placed on imported goods
- Monopoly
- complete control of a product or buisness by one person or group
- mestizo
- mixed native and European
- mulatto
- African and European
- Asante Kingdom
- conquered by Osei Tutu
- Atahualpa
- Incan ruler who lost to the Spanish
- Tenochtitlan
- Aztec capital
- King Affonso
- King of the Kongo
- Revenue
- income from taxes
- Malinche
- Indian woman who served as a translator and advisor for Cortez
- immunity
- resistance
- Repeal
- to cancel
- Council of the Indies
- closely monitored these colonial officials to make sure they did not assume too much authority
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- Portugal claimed Brazil
- Samuel de Champlain
- founder and first governor of Quebec
- privateer
- pirates who operated with the approval of European governments
- Compact
- an agreement among people
- Futa Toro
- African ruler in northern Senegal
- Capitalism
- investment of money to make a profit
- ecomienda
- the right to demand labor or tributefrom Native Americans in a particular area
- peon
- laborers forced to work in order to pay off dept