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history unit 3
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Anericas and Europe, Asia, and Africa |
| circumnavigate | to travel all the way around 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 t 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 1517to reform the Catholic Church |
| Spanish Armada | a large Spanish fleet defeated by england in 1588 |
| north passage | a nonexistent path through north America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the atlantic to the pacific |
| chater | an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
| sea dogs | Pirats that worked for Queen Ilisabith |
| Tenochtitlan | The Aztec capital |
| viceroy | The spanish governor in the colonys |
| middle passage | a voyage that brought enslaved africans across the atlantic ocean |
| African Diaspora | a disapora is a the scattering of people |