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Kev SS 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbian Exchange | The exchange of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa |
| Northwest passage | the direct water route through the Americas |
| Quran | The holy book of Islam |
| Mercantilism | Economic theory that a Nation's power is based on its Earth (land it owns) |
| Conquistadors | Spanish Explorers |
| Coureur de Bois | French fur trappers or runners of the woods |
| Circumnavigate | to sail all the way around the world |
| strait | narrow passage of water connecting two seas |
| Line of Demarcation | an imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic from the North to the South Pole. It shows lands that Portugal and Spain controlled. |
| Saga | traditional stories |
| Mosque | Muslim place of worship |
| Pilgramage | journey to a holy place |
| classical | ancient Greek and Roman works |
| astrolabe | tools designed to measure the stars and/or sun's position and to help determine latitudinal position on earth |
| technology | use of science for practical purposes |
| crusades | expeditions launched by Europeans to regain the holy land (holy wars between Christians and Muslims over Jerusalem) |
| Pueblo | Spanish town |
| Mission | Spanish religious settlement or community with a town |
| Encomienda | The right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans living on Spanish land. This system turned Native Americans into slaves. (economic/social class system by Spanish colonists that forced NA to work for very cheap) |
| Plantation | large farms; usually worked by slaves. |
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