History GCSE
Asiento system
What Asiento system means in History GCSE, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Asiento system
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A system through which Spain regulated the trade of enslaved Africans to supply labour to the Americas.
Topics that use Asiento system
- Option P1: Key topic 3: The Spanish Empire c1528–c1555 - 3 Impact of the 'New World' on Spain (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Council of the Indies
- House of Trade
- Cacao and tobacco
- Centralised bureaucratic government
- Monopoly licenses
- Trade monopoly
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