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Unit 2
Question | Answer |
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Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americans, Europeans, Asian, and African. |
Sea Dogs | The people on ships that raid other ships for their gold. |
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 the gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity. |
Plantation | A large farm that 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 the early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. |
Charter | An official document that dives a person the right to establish a colony. |
Tenochtitlan | An ancient Aztec city on the site of present day Mexico City. It was destroyed by the Spanish in 1521. |
Viceroy | A person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign. |
Aztecs | A member of an American Indian people whose empire in Mexico was conquered by the Spaniards. |
Incas | A Native American tribe that settled in Mexico. |
Emigrants | A person that moves. |