Matching Pairs Unit 4 Maritime EmpiresOnline version Vocabulary Matching by Melinda Brown 1 Conquistadors 2 Creoles 3 Capital 4 Audiencias 5 Triangular Trade 6 Viceroys 7 Treaty of Tordesillas 8 Hacienda System 9 Monopolies 10 Sepoys 11 Encomienda System 12 Cash Crops 13 Joint Stock Companies 14 Indentured servitude Forced labor on cash crop farms 3 segments of trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa Investors financed trade by buying shares in corporations such as the British East India Company Europeans who agreed to seven years of labor in exchange for passage to America and room and board Spanish Explorers European trained Indian soldiers used by the British to take India from the Mughal Empire granted certain merchants, joint stock companies, and governments the exclusive right to trade Spanish royal courts to which people could appeal the viceroy's decisions Spanish administrators/officials representing and acting on behalf of the Spanish crown Grown specifically to trade not for subsistence living Landowners forced indigenous people to work getting gold and other resources in exchange for food and shelter Spain and Portugal divided the Americas along the Line of the Meridian material wealth available to invest to produce more wealth Individuals born in the Americas but of Spanish origin