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kevins Unit 2 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbian Exchange | the transfer of plant, animals, and the disease between the americans and the europeans,asia and africa |
| sea dogs | english sailors |
| conquiador | a spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions. |
| encomienda system | a system in spanish americabthat tave setlers the right to tax localindians or to demand their labot in exchange for protecting them |
| plantation | a large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit. |
| protestman reformation | a religous movement began b martin luther and others in 1517 to reform the catholic church |
| spanish armada | a large spanish fleet defeated by england in 1588 |
| northwest passege | a nonexistant path throughnorth america that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail to the pacific to the atlantic ocean |
| charter | an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
| tenochtitlan | capital of the aztec empire |
| viceroy | the governer of a country or province |
| aztecs | a member of the nahuatl-speaking people that founded mexican empire |
| incas | a member of any dominant groups |
| emigrants | a person to leave a place to live somewhere else |