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CWH Unit 3+4 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Capitalism | a competitive economic system in which products and production means are owned by individuals or private groups |
| Commodity | something with a practical use or value |
| Demographic | a way to describe a group of people based on things like their age, gender, income, education, or where they live |
| Indigenous | having origin in a country or locality; native |
| Mercantilism | the doctrine, developed in the West after the decline of feudalism, that a nation's economy could be strengthened by governmental protection of home industries, by increased foreign exports, and by accumulating gold and silver |
| Plantation System | a capitalist economic system dependent on enslaved labor |
| Conquistador | a Spanish conqueror of the sixteenth century |
| Convert | to change or influence change in someone else's or one's own faith or beliefs |
| Mestizo | a person of mixed European and Indigenous ancestry |
| Missionary | a person desiring to convert others to a principle or set of beliefs |
| Syncretism | when different cultures or religions blend together to create something new |