Age of Exploration

5. a government in power
8. 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
11. colonies imitated the culture and social patterns of their parent countries.
15. people with all their abilities and efforts; work performed by people that provides the goods or services in an economy
16. a large agricultural estate
17. the customary beliefs, social forms, and material traits of a racial, religious, or social group
18. 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
19. beyond or across the sea
20. a settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control

1. 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
2. a leader in the Spanish conquest of America
3. a small, fast, maneuverable ship that had a large cargo hold and usually three masts with lateen sails
4. a person of mixed European and native American Indian descent
6. Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans have spiraling currents,
7. to select for some purpose; to conscript
9. Europeans wanted to convert who to Christianity
10. a person of mixed African and European descent
12. to send a product or service for sale to another country
13. very expensive after Arab middlemen shipped them to Europe
14. a labor system that the Spanish administrators in Peru used to draft native people to work in the Spanish landowners’ silver mines
17. a person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently