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SS Chap 4 vocab
Niewoehner SS Chapter 4 vocab
Term | Definition |
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society | a group of people forming a community |
mission | a religious settlement |
missionary | people who live and work in a religious settlement, teaching religious beliefs |
convert | to change from one belief to another |
conquest | the capture or taking of something by force |
expedition | a journey made for a special purpose |
ally | a friend who will help in a fight |
conquistador | a Spanish word for conquerors who came to the Americas in the 1500s |
colony | a settlement far from the country that rules it |
colonist | a person who lives in a colony |
Columbian Exchange | a movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ways of life between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
encomienda | grant given by the king of Spain to wealthy settlers in New Spain, giving them control of all Native Americans living on that land |
plantation | a large farm with workers who live on the land they work |