1. Mayans, Incas, Aztecs AND The Age of Exploration Vocabulary.
Maize
Resident
Quipu
Instructed
Caravel
Overseas
Conquistador
Colony
Culture
Regime
Mercantilism
Export
Plantation
Middle Passage
Peninsulare
Creole
Mestizo
Mulatto
Labor
Encomienda
Mita
Draft

2. Mayans, Incas, Aztecs AND The Age of Exploration Vocabulary Modified
Caravel
Overseas
Conquistador
Regime
Mercantilism
Plantation
Middle Passage
Peninsulare
Creole
Mestizo
Mulatto
Encomienda
Mita
Export

3. Vocab Quiz
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
A set of principles that dominated economic thought in the seventeenth century…the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supply of gold and silver.
The government in power.
A leader in the Spanish conquest of the Americas.
To send a product or service for sale to another country.
A person born on the Iberian Peninsula…a Spanish or Portuguese official who resided temporarily in Latin America for political and economic gain and then returned to Europe.
A person of European descent born in Latin America and living there permanently.
A system of labor the Spanish used in the Americas…Spanish landowners had the right to use Native Americans as laborers.
A settlement of people living in a new territory, linked with the parent country by trade and direct government control.
A person of mixed European and Native American descent.