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W History - Topic 11
New Global Connections Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| cartographer | a person who makes maps |
| circumnavigate | to travel completely around the world |
| outpost | a distant military station or a remote settlement |
| sovereign | having full, independent power |
| sepoy | Indian soldier who served in an army set up by the French or English trading companies |
| dynasty | ruling family |
| shogun | one of the military leaders who ruled Japan prior to 1868 |
| conquistador | “conqueror” in Spanish; a leader in the Spanish conquests of America, Mexico, and Peru in the sixteenth century |
| immunity | resistance, such as the power to keep from being affected by a disease |
| alliance | formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another’s defense |
| civil war | a war fought between groups of people in the same nation |
| privateer | Dutch, English, and French pirates who preyed on treasure ships from the Americas in the 1500s, operating with the approval of European governments |
| viceroy | representative of the king of Spain who ruled colonies in his name |
| encomienda | the right, granted by Spanish monarchs to conquistadors, to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area |
| peon | a worker forced to labor for a landlord to pay off a debt that is impossible to pay off in his or her lifetime, which is incurred by food, tool, or seeds the landlord has advanced to him or her |
| peninsular | in Spanish colonial America, a person born in Spain |
| creole | in Spanish colonial America, an American-born descendant of Spanish settlers |
| mestizo | in Spanish colonial America, a person of Native American and European descent |
| mulatto | in Spanish colonial America, a person of African and European descent |
| revenue | money taken in through taxes |
| compact | an agreement among people |
| plantation | large estate run by an overseer and worked by laborers who live there |
| missionary | someone sent to do religious work in a territory or foreign country |
| monopoly | complete control of a product or business by one person or a group |
| triangular trade | colonial trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves |
| mutiny | revolt, especially of soldiers or sailors against their officers |
| inflation | economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available |
| price revolution | period in European history when inflation rose rapidly |
| capitalism | economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit |
| entrepreneur | person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit |
| tariff | tax on imported goods |
| mercantilism | policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver |
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