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History Unit 3
Question | Answer |
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Columbian Exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa |
Circumnavigate | to travel all the way around the globe |
Conquistador | a Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain |
Encomienda System | a system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity |
Plantation | a large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit |
Protestant Reformation | a religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church |
Spanish Armada | a large Spanish fleet defeated by England in 1588 |
Northwest Passage | a nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
Charter | an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
Sea Dogs | Pirates who worked for Queen Elizabeth the first, to steal from the Spanish. |
Tenochtitlan | the Aztec capital city in Mexico that Cortez conquered. |
viceroy | Soanish governor in the colony |
Middle Passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
African Diaspora | the population of displaced Africans and their descendants around the world. |