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chapter 16 vocab 1
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Question | Answer |
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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 |