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module 2
New Empires in the Americas
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| astrolabe | a device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars. |
| Caravels | heavy galleons they had before |
| Line of Demarcation | divided the Atlantic Ocean. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | which moved the Line of Demarcation 800 miles farther west |
| circumnavigate | or go all the way around, the globe. |
| Columbian Exchange | because it started with Columbus's explorations |
| Conquistadors | soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas. |
| plantations | large farms that just grew one kind of crop |
| protestant reformation | This religious movement began in small German but quickly spread to much of Europe |
| Protestants | were reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church's practices |
| charter | a document giving him permission to start a colony |
| Spanish Armada | a huge fleet of warships meant to end english plans |
| Northwest passage | a water route through north america that would allow ships to sail from the atlantic to the pacific |
| encomienda system | It gave settlers the right to tax local native americans or to make them work |
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