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Age of Exploration R

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What is the name of the period of "rebirth" during the Middle Ages? renaissance
What is the system of government used during the Middle Ages? feudal system
What is the 14th century disease that killed a large part of the population of Europe? black death
What is the name of a Knight's code of honor? chivalry
Who are the people who searched for new lands and riches? explorers
Who is the person who pays for expeditions? sponsor
What is the name of the Native Americans Columbus first met? Taino
What is the North and South America New World
What is the spreading of new ideas and element of culture? diffusion
Who were the Spanish explorers? conquistadors
What is the transfer of people, plants, animals, and disease back and forth across the Atlantic? The Columbian Exchange
What is it called to cause someone to loose their freedom? enslavement
What is treatment of people as property for the purpose of forced labor? slavery
What is something that belongs to someone else? property
What is the sea route undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to North America? middle passage
What is a new settlement established and governed by a country in another land? colony
What is a village of buildings made of adobe and stone? pueblo
What is clay material used in making dwellings? adobe
What is the area extending west from lower Florida through California borderlands
What are walled forts that protected the Spanish missions? presidios
Who are the people who travel in order to convert people to their own religion? missionaries
What are the people who change their religious beliefs? converts
Who are adventurers who capture and kill animals? trappers
Who are the wood trappers? coureurs de bois
What is hunger and disease in the settlement of Jamestown? starving times
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