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| 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 or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to christianity. |
| plantation | a large farm that specializes in growing one kind of crop. |
| 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 explores 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 | a ruler exercising authority in a colony on behalf of a sovereign. |
| aztecs | a large empier with many warriors. |
| incas | a south american humming bird having mainly blackish or bronze-colored plumage with 1 or 2 wite brest patches. |
| emigrants | a person who leaves their own country in order to settle petmanetly in another. |
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