Unit 4 Vocabulary

2. A person of mixed European descent in the Spanish colonies
6. A system of labor used by Spanish settlers in which indigenous people work in exchange for protection and being taught about Christianity
7. A system of labor used by Spanish settlers based on large estates in which indigenous people worked for wages
10. land granted by the Ottoman sultans in exchange for loyalty
12. the practice of making maps
14. the exchange of diseases, ideas, food. crops, and populations between the New World and the Old World following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus
15. a sailing ship used by Spain from 1450 to 1750 originally as a warship, later for trade.
16. Descendants of Africans who escaped slavery in Jamaica

1. Runaway serfs in Russia known for being skilled fighters
3. A Hindu warrior group
4. a sailing ship used by the Dutch from 1450 to 1750
5. a company owned by a collection of investors
8. a small, fast sailing ship used by the Spanish and the Portuguese from 1450 to 1750
9. a sexually transmitted infection that traveled from the New World to the Old World
11. a member of the Russian nobility
13. An economic system based on the idea that a nation’s wealth and power were best served by increasing exports and trade