MWC Chapter 2 New Global Connections

Explorer who conquered  the Aztec Empire

Portuguese wanted Chinese silks and porcelains. Chinese demanded payment in ______ or ______.

Dutch, English, and French pirates who preyed on treasure ships from the Americas in the 1500s.

About how many African slaves reached the Americas by the mid-1800s when the slave trade ended?

Economic system- means of production are privately owned business and operated for profit

Global exchange of goods/ideas/plants/animals begun with Columbus' journey to the Americas

A representative of the king of Spain who ruled colonies in his name.

Country that Cortes came to in the New World

What 2 groups controlled most of the trade between Asia and Europe in the 1400s?

Income (money) taken in from taxes

Revolts by slaves on ships carrying them to the Americas

This is a distant military station or remote settlement

1st permanent colony the English established in North America in 1607

Policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported-build its supply of gold/silver

People born in Spain who lived in Spanish colonial America

Who raised money for expeditions and established a base for explorers in Portugal?

Sailed west from Spain in 1492, reached the Caribbean Islands, thought was the Indies of Asia?

Right granted by Spanish monarchs to conquistadors- demand labor/tribute from Native Americans

A trading company established with full sovereign powers by the Netherlands in 1602

Aztec ruler imprisoned and compelled to sign over lands and treasures to the Spanish

The priest who condemned the evils of the encomienda system in the Spanish colonies

A person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit

Dynasty established by the Manchus in the mid-1600s that lasted until the early 1900s

Country in South America claimed by Portugal

A war fought between groups of people in the same nation

Country Pizarro claimed for Spain in the New World

Line set up by the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the non-European world into two zones

French possessions in present-day Canada from the 1500s to 1763.

Portuguese explorer and navigator- the first person to reach India by sailing around Africa

Portuguese navigator and explorer who led an expedition to circumnavigate the world in 1519.

Group of English colonists- started colony in North America in 1620-rejected Church of England

NOT a cause for a decline in Native American population in the Americas

Native Americans did not have any ____________ from disease that Europeans brought to Americas

Kingdom/empire that emerged in 1700s in present-day Ghana (in Africa)-active in the slave trade

Country that claimed the land in South America, Florida, and Mexico

1st major nation to buy slaves for its colonies

2nd leg of the triangular trade that brought slaves from Africa to the Americas

Colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies/Africa- goods were exchanged for slaves

An island chain in present-day Indonesia, which Europeans in the 1400s called the Spice Islands

2 countries that were at war from 1754-1763

Who were the 1st Europeans to challenge Portuguese domination of Asian trade?

Large estate run by an overseer and worked by laborers who live there

He was a leader in the Spanish conquests of America, Mexico, and Peru in the sixteenth century.

Name of the 1st permanent French colony established in North America in 1607

Who worked on the plantations and mines in the Americas before the Africans were shipped over?