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| charts made by medieval navigators and mathematicians in the 13th and 14th centuries |
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| is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Portuguese Empire or the Spanish Empire in a general sense |
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| an economic and social system that permitted the conquering Spaniards to collect tribute from the natives and use them as laborers |
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A direct representative of a monarch.
~Rules over a viceroyalty, and answers directly to the king. The Spanish had viceroys to rule their massive viceroyalties in the New World. |
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| High councils made up of viceroys. They were used to administrate viceroyalties. |
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| is a historical term indicating trade among three ports or regions. Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export commodities that are not required in the region from which its major imports come. |
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| the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa[1] were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. |
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| the widespread transfer of animals, plants, culture, human populations, communicable diseases, technology and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian hemispheres in the 15th and 16th centuries |
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| the relatively high rate of inflation that characterized the period from the first half of the 16th century to the first half of the 17th, across Western Europe |
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| is a business entity where different stocks can be bought and owned by shareholders. |
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| the name historians use to identify a set of economic tendencies that came to dominate economic practices in the 17th century. |
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