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chapter 16 vocab 1
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| conquistador | name for a spanish explorer who claimed lands in the americas |
| immunity | resisitance |
| alliance | formal agreement between groups of people in the same nation |
| civil wars | fought between groups of people in the same nation. |
| viceroy | representatives who ruled in his name |
| plantation | large estates run by an owner or the owners overseer |
| encomiendas | the right to demand labor or tribute |
| peons | workers forced to labor for a landlord on order to pay off a debt |
| peninsulares | peeople born in spain |
| creoles | american born descendants of spanish settlers |
| mestizos | people of native american and european descent |
| mulattoes | people of african and european descent |
| privateers | operated with the approval of european governments |
| missionary | hoping to spread christianity to native americans |