unit 4 quiz 3

Question 1

Mita System

Answer 1

economic system in Incan society where people paid taxes with their labor and what they produced

Question 2

Mulatto

Answer 2

The term used in Spanish and Portuguese colonies to describe someone of mixed African and European descent.

Question 3

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

Answer 3

a slave revolt led by that took place in Virginia in 1831. One example of slave resistance challenging existing authorities in the Americas

Question 4

Peninsulares

Answer 4

Spanish-born, came to Latin America; ruled, highest social class.

Question 5

Royal chartered monopoly companies

Answer 5

Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies.

Question 6

Santeria

Answer 6

Originating in Cuba, a religion that blends African traditions and Christian beliefs

Question 7

trading post empire

Answer 7

Form of imperial dominance based on control of trade rather than on control of subject peoples.

Question 8

Triangular Trade

Answer 8

A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

Question 9

Vasco da Gama

Answer 9

Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.

Question 10

Vodun

Answer 10

or voodoo is a New World syncretic faith that combines the animist faiths of West Africa with Christianity