Vocab #4

4. The term used by Spanish authorities to describe someone of mixed native American and European descent.
9. (1371-1433?) Chinese naval explorer who sailed along most of the coast of Asia, Japan, and half way down the east coast of Africa before his death.
10. Named after Christopher Columbus. Describes the exchange of crops, goods, animals, and diseases between Europe and its colonies in the Americas after Columbus' voyage in 1492.
11. The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia
14. a trade route that exchanged goods between the West Indies, the American colonies, and West Africa
15. Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.
16. Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506)

1. Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world.
2. A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
3. businesses formed by groups of people who jointly make an investment and share in the profits and losses
5. Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima (1475-1541).
6. Portuguese explorer. In 1497-1498 he led the first naval expedition from Europe to sail to India, opening an important commercial sea route.
7. system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills.
8. 1485-1547, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico
12. An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought
13. an economic situation in which a country sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad