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Ch.4 voc.
Vocab for ch.4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| navigation | the science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship |
| enslaved | when someone has been forced into a system where he or she works for no pay and can be bought and sold as property |
| slavery | a system in which people could be bought and sold and forced to work with no pay |
| circumnavigate | to sail completely around the world |
| conquistador | a Spanish soldier in the 16th century who helped conquer the native civilizations |
| rebel | to fight against people in power particularly the government |
| legend | a story that is told over and over again by many generations of people |
| ambush | to attack by surprise from a hiding place |
| Columbian Exchange | the transfer of peoples,plants, and animals across the Atlantic Ocean after Columbus's first trip to the Americas |
| plantaition | a large farm where crops are grown and the people who tend it live on the land |
| imunity | the ability to resist getting sick from a disease |
| epidemic | an outbreak of disease that many people sick at once |
| privateer | the captain of an armed, privately owned ship whom the government has given permission to attack enemy ships |
| invasion | the entrance of an armed force into another country in order conquer it |
| armada | a large number of warships acting together like an army; a fleet |
| Northwest Passage | a water rout through North America that would allow Europeans to sail west to Asia |
| settlement | a small community of people in a frontier region |
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