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History unit 3 vocab
Question | Answer |
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Sea Dogs | Name given to English sailors who raided Spanish treasure ships. |
Terochtitlan | The ancient capital of the Aztec empire on the site of present day Mexico City. Destroyed by the Spanish in 1521. |
Viceroy | A man who served as a governor of a country, province or colony. |
Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas, 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. |
Charter | An official document that gives a person the right to establish a 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. |