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