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