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Unit 3 History vocab
Unit 3 History vocabulary words.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia and Africa. |
| Circumnavigate | To travel around the world. (Circle the globe.) |
| Conquistador | A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain. |
| Encomienda System | A system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity. |
| Plantation | A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit. |
| Protestant Reformation | A religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church. |
| Spanish Armada | A large Spanish fleet defeated by England in 1588. |
| Northwest Passage | A nonexistent passage through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. |
| Charter | An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony. |
| Sea Dogs | The English pirates hired by Queen Elizabeth the First to steal from the Spanish. |
| Tenochtitlan | The Aztec capital city conquered by Cortez. |
| viceroy | A Spanish governor in the colonies. |
| Middle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. |
| African Diaspora | The population of displaced Africans and their descendants around the world. |
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