Age of Exploration

The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old World societies after 1492.

the business revolution that occurred in Europe after the Middle Ages

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

people conquered by Cortes, Native American civilization that spread through what is now Mexico, A.D. 1300-1520

Ancient empire located in the Andes Mountains.

A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa

the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

a large estate or farm that used enslaved people or hired workers to grow and harvest crops

a period of European exploration and discovery that lasted from about 1418 to 1620

legal system to control Native Americans in Spain's American colonies, System of mining and farming using natives as slave labor

system of settling new lands that remain under the government of their native land

The exchange of goods, primarily slaves between Africa, America, and Europe.

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits

body authorized by law to act as a single person and to have rights and duties