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history unit 3 vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| colobian excange | The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
| circumnavigate | To travel all the way around the globe. |
| conquistador | A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions i 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 the 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 pat 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 dog | English sailors that raided Spanish treasure ships. |
| tenochtitlan | Aztec capital city conquered by Cortes. |
| viceroy | Govnenor in Spanish America. |