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Exploration-5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Cultural Diversity | A society where groups of people with different ways of life live together |
| cultural exchange | Groups of people who share and adopt different aspects of each other's way of life. |
| encomienda | a grant by the King of Spain under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted land and the natives who live on it. |
| Ethnic Group | A group sharing a common culture, religion, language, and a way of life |
| immune | cannot be affected by disease |
| Indigenous Population | People already living in a particular region or environment before exploration by Europeans |
| Mestizos | People of mixed Native American and European, usually Spanish or Portuguese, ancestry |
| Middle Passage | The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas |
| New World | North America, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America |
| Northwest Passage | A route by sea between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans along the northern coast of North America |
| Pandemic | A disease occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting a very high number of people |
| slavery | A system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work |
| Turning Point | Key event or series of events that taken as a whole significantly change the way of life for a group of people |
| Columbian Exchange | A transfer of living things between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres |
| Racism | The belief that some people are inferior because of their race |
| Cash Crops | A crop that is grown to be sold rather than for use by the farmer who grew it. |
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