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bucky unit 2
unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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