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Hacienda System

Monopolies

Sepoys

Treaty of Tordesillas

Capital

Creoles

Conquistadors

Indentured servitude

Audiencias

Encomienda System

Cash Crops

Joint Stock Companies

Viceroys

Triangular Trade

Europeans who agreed to seven years of labor in exchange for passage to America and room and board

European trained Indian soldiers used by the British to take India from the Mughal Empire

Individuals born in the Americas but of Spanish origin

Spanish royal courts to which people could appeal the viceroy's decisions

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

Grown specifically to trade not for subsistence living

Forced labor on cash crop farms

Spanish Explorers

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

material wealth available to invest to produce more wealth

Spanish administrators/officials representing and acting on behalf of the Spanish crown

granted certain merchants, joint stock companies, and governments the exclusive right to trade