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Stack #471051
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Amerias for Spain in the 1500's and 1600's. | Conquistadors |
| Natural protection, resistance. | Immunity |
| Formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense. | Alliances |
| War fought between two groups of people in the same nation. | Civil War |
| Representative who rued one of Spain's provines in the Americas in the king's name; one who governed in India in the name of the British monarch. | Viceroy |
| Right the Spanish government granted to its American colonists to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans | Encomienda |
| Member of the highest class in Spain's colonies in the Americas. | Peninsulares |
| Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was an American-born descendent of Spanish settlers. | Creoles |
| Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was of Native American and European descent | Mestizos |
| Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas, who was of African and European descent. | Mulattoes |
| Privately owned ship commissioned by a government to attack and capture enemy ships, especially merchant's ships. | Privateers |
| French possessions in present-day Canada from the 1500's to 1763. | New France |
| Money taken in through taxes. | Revenue |
| English protestants who rejected the Church of England. | Pilgrims |
| An agreement in which each side makes concessions; an acceptable middle ground. | Compact |
| War between Britian and France in the Americas that happened from 1754 to 1763; it was part of a global war calle the seven year's war. | French and Indian War |
| Peace treaty made final in 1783 that ended the American Revolution | Treaty of Paris |
| Coloniall trade routes among Europe and its colonies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves. | Triangular Trade |
| That leg of the triangular trade route on which slaves were transported from Africa to the Americas | Middle Passage |
| The global exchange of goods, ideas, plants and animals, and disease that began with Columbus's exploration of the Americas | Columbian Exchange |
| Economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase in the amount of money available. | Inflation |
| Period in European history when inflation rose rapidly | Price Revolution |
| Economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit. | Capitalism |
| Person who assumes financial risk in the hope of making a profit | Entrepreneurs |
| Policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver | Mercantilism |
| Tax on imported goods. | Tariffs |
| Mapmaker | cartographer |
| To travel completely around the world. | Circumnavigate |
| Complete control of a product or business by one person or group. | Monopoly |
| Having full, independent power. | Sovereign |
| A distant military station or a remote settlement | Outposts |
| A treaty signed between Spain and Portugal in 1494 which divived the non-European world between them. | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| Line set by the Treaty of Tordesillas dividing the non-European world into 2 zones, one controlled by Spain and the other by Portugal. | Line of Demarcation |
| He led the way in sponsoring exploration for Portugal, a small nation next to Spain. | Prince Henry |
| A portuguese navigator who followed in Dia's footsteps, leading 4 ships around the cape of good hope. he also wen to India | Vasco de Gama |
| A portuguese nobleman who set out from Spain with 5 ships to find a way to reach the Pacific. | Ferinand Magellan |
| An Italian navigator who wanted to reach the East Indies- a group of islands in Southeast Asia, by sailing west across the Atlantic. | Christopher Columbus |
| A french explorer who claimed what is now Canada for France. | Jacques Cartier |
| A priest who opposed the poor treatment of Native Americans. | Bartolome de Las Camas |
| A spanish conquistador who led an expedition that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire. | Hernan Cortes |
| A spanish conquistador who conquered the Incan Empire and founded Lima. | Francisco Pizarro |
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