Exploration Vocabulary

3. belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.
4. a forced-labor draft imposed by the Spaniards on the indigenous inhabitants of Peru.
7. a government, especially an authoritarian one.
9. a labor system established by the Spanish Crown in the 1500s.
12. any of the leaders in the Spanish conquest of America
13. work, especially hard physical work.
14. an estate on which crops such as coffee, sugar, and tobacco are cultivated by resident labor.
15. the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.
16. a Spaniard born in Spain residing in the New World

1. the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
2. (in Latin America) a man of mixed race, especially one having Spanish and indigenous descent.
3. an instrument for determining direction on the surface of Earth
5. from, to, or relating to a foreign country, especially one across the sea.
6. compulsory recruitment for military service.
8. a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
9. send (goods or services) to another country for sale.
10. a person of mixed white and black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one black parent.
11. a long journey involving travel by sea or in space.
12. a small, fast Spanish or Portuguese sailing ship of the 15th–17th centuries.
15. a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.