Chap 17.2

Question 1

mercantilism

Answer 1

a set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century; it held that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver

Question 2

Plantations

Answer 2

a large agricultural estate

Question 3

Middle Passage

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Peninsulare

Answer 4

a person born on the Iberian Peninsula; typically, a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe

Question 5

Creole

Answer 5

a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently

Question 6

Encomienda

Answer 6

a system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas; Spanish landowners had the right, as granted by Queen Isabella, to use Native Americans as laborers

Question 7

Mestizo

Answer 7

a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent

Question 8

Mulatto

Answer 8

a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent

Question 9

Mita

Answer 9

a labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work