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Unit 3 history vocab
Term | Definition |
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Buffer | A protected area along the frontier to defend more settled areas |
Charter | Legal document that grants rights or privileges |
Corporate colony | Colony established through a grant of land, made by the king to a corporation or company |
Far East | Area of Asia that includes India, China, Japan, and southeastern asia |
Friar | Catholic missionaries particularly from Spain , who worked in church missions and outposts in foreign lands |
Garrison | A unit of soldiers |
Guale | The name Spain gave to the northern half of GA’s coast |
Huguenots | Persecutes French Protestants who fled to North America in the 16th-17th centuries |
Indies | Another name for Far East used by Europeans in 1400s |
Joint stock company | Business given an exclusive charter by the king to settle a new colony in America |
Line of Demarcation | Line drawn by Pope Alexander in 1493 to divide rights to the new world between Spain and portugal |
Mercantilism | A trade policy based on the idea that a country should sell more to other countries than it buys from them |
Mocama | The Spanish province in the 16th and 17th centuries, on the southern half of GA’s coast between the altamaha and st marys rivers |
Proprietary colony | Established when the king issued a charter granting ownership of a colony to a person or group |
Puritans | Members of a Protestant religious group who were opposed to the church of England’s practices |
Royal colony | A colony set up and run directly by the British government in the 1600s and 1700s |