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LA History terms
La History Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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A group of people living in a new territory with ties to a distant land. | colony |
Spanish soldier -explorer | conquistador |
State containing several countries or territories. | empire |
Natural defense against disease. | immunity |
legal system to control Native Americans in Spain's American colonies. | encomienda |
Huge farm or ranch in Spain's American colonies. | haciendas |
Large commercial farm. | plantations |
Economic system in which colonies sent raw materials to the mother country: in return colonists were expected to buy products from the country. | mercantilism |
Aztec language that contributed many words to modern Spanish. | Nahuatl |
Sculpting the hillsides into different levels for crops. | terraced farming |
3-stage trade pattern that carried goods and enslaved people among Europe, Africa, and the Americas. | triangular trade |
Floating gardens of the Aztecs. | chinampa |
To cause someone to adopt a different religion. | convert |
The moving of animals, plants, people, and diseases between the Old World and the New World | Columbian Exchange |
God, Glory and Gold | 3 G's |