Give Me Liberty
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| maize | a crop that formed the basis of agriculture in the Western Hemisphere
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| Tenochtitlan | The capital city of the Aztec empire, in present-day Mexico
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| Cahokia | A city near present-day St. Louis that was a fortified community created by "mound builders, " which had a population between 10,000 and 30,000 in the year 1200
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| Iroquois | An alliance of five peoples living in present-day New York and Pennsylvania - the Mohawk, Oneido, Cayuga, Seneca, and Onondaga - which formed a Great League of Peace
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| "Christian Liberty" | An idea common in Europe that freedom would come from abandoning the life of sin to embrace the teachings of Christ
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| Zheng He | A Chinese Admiral who led seven large naval expeditions in the Indian Ocean
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| caravel | A ship capable of long-distance travel
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| factories | Portugese fortified trading posts on the western coast of Africa
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| reconquista | The "reconquest" of Spain from the Moors by King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
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| Columbian Exchange | The transatlantic flow of goods and people that began with Columbus's voyages
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| peninsulares | Persons of European birth living in the colonies
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| mestizos | Spanish word for person of mixed Native American and European ancestry
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| encomienda system | A Spanish system under which the first settlers had been granted authority over conquered Indian lands with the right to extract forced labor from the native inhabitants
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| Black Legend | Idea that the Spanish New World empire was more oppressive toward the Indians than other European empires; was used as a justification for English imperial expansion
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| Pueblo Revolt | Uprising in 1680 in which Pueblo Indians temporarily drove Spanish colonists out of modern-day New Mexico.
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| Pope | A Pueblo Indian who became the main organizer of an uprising that aimed to drive the Spanish from their colony and restore the Indians' traditional autonomy.
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| Huguenots | French Protestant colonists in America
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| metis | Children of marriages between Indian women and French traders or officials
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| patroons | Shareholders who agreed to transport tenants for agricultural labor
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| wampum | A string of beads used by Indians in religious rituals and as currency
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