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JLC SS Ch 15 Vocab
JLC SS 6th Grade Ch 15 Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Indulgences | Paying money to the church for forgiveness of sins |
| Commerce | The buying and selling of goods. |
| Excommunicate | To be thrown out of the church - no longer allowed to be part of it. |
| circumnavigate | to sail completely around the world. |
| conquistador | A Spanish conqueror |
| colony | a settlement that is physically separated from, but under the control of a ruling country. |
| mercantilism | an economic system whereby a country gets its raw goods from the colony then makes products with the goods and sells them back to the colony. |
| Armada | The Spanish naval fleet |
| Triangle Trade | Slaves from Africa were brought to the West Indies to be sold for sugar cane that was brought to New England to make rum. |
| Reformation | Break from the Catholic Church |
| Protestant | The branch of Christianity that broke from the Catholic Church. |