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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plant, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa |
| Sea dogs | a group of sailers that raided the Spanish's treasure ships |
| 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 Ocean |
| Charter | an official document that gives 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 | The govener of a country or province who rules as the representative of a king |
| Aztecs | a group of native americans that had a good military system |
| Incas | a group of native americans that lived in the Andes mountains |
| Emigrants | A person who leaves their own country to settle permanantly in another |
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