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Exploration
Question | Answer |
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Cultural Diversity | A society where groups of people with different ways of life live together |
Cultural Exchange | Groups of people who share and adopt different aspects of each other's way of life |
Encomienda | A grant by the King of Spain under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted land and the natives who live on it |
Ethnic Group | A group sharing a common culture, religion, language, and a way of life |
Immune | Cannot be affected by disease |
Indigenous Population | People already living in a particular region or environment before exploration by Europeans |
Colonization | The migration and settlement in another area |
Explorer | A person who travels in search of geographical or scientific information |
New World | North America, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America |
Northwest Passage | A route by sea between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans along the northern coast of North America |
Pandemic | A disease occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting a very high number of people |
Demographics | Data about population characteristics |
Turning Point | Key event or series of events that, taken as a whole, significantly change the way of life for a group of people |
Columbian Exchange | A transfer of living things between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
Hacienda | Plantation owned by the Spanish settles, or the catholic church in Spanish America |