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Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia and Africa. |
Sea Dogs | English sailors who raided Spanish 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. |
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 | A place built in the middle of Lake Texcoco, near the present-day site of Mexico. |
Viceroy | goveners appointed by the king |
Aztecs | ruled the most powerful state in Mesoamerica |
Incas | started in the andes but in time moved throughout the whole pacific coast with about 12 million. |
immigrants | a person who moves to another country after leaving his or her home land |