Matching Pairs Unit 4 Maritime EmpiresOnline version Vocabulary Matching by Melinda Brown 1 Sepoys 2 Indentured servitude 3 Encomienda System 4 Cash Crops 5 Hacienda System 6 Conquistadors 7 Monopolies 8 Capital 9 Audiencias 10 Triangular Trade 11 Viceroys 12 Treaty of Tordesillas 13 Creoles 14 Joint Stock Companies Spain and Portugal divided the Americas along the Line of the Meridian Investors financed trade by buying shares in corporations such as the British East India Company Forced labor on cash crop farms Europeans who agreed to seven years of labor in exchange for passage to America and room and board granted certain merchants, joint stock companies, and governments the exclusive right to trade Individuals born in the Americas but of Spanish origin material wealth available to invest to produce more wealth Spanish royal courts to which people could appeal the viceroy's decisions 3 segments of trade between the Americas, Europe, and Africa 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 Spanish administrators/officials representing and acting on behalf of the Spanish crown European trained Indian soldiers used by the British to take India from the Mughal Empire Spanish Explorers