Apush Chapter 1

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nation-state

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a community organized under one government, according to an idea of nationhood or nationality derived from, but not limited to, common ancestry, language, customs, religion, or land ownership.

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matrilinear

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based on or tracing descent through the female line 

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confederacy

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a union of political organizations; an alliance

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primeval

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aboriginal; having existed from the beginning; in an earliest or original stage or state

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saga

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a narrative telling the adventures of a hero or family; original a story of the families that settled Iceland (12th-14th centuries), but now any prose narrative that resembles such an account

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middlemen

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in trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original producers of goods and the retail merchants who sell to consumers

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caravel

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small regular vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails; ships that can sail more closely into the wind, allowing European sailors to explore the Western shores of Africa

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plantation

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large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor

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ecosystem

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a system formed by the interaction of a community of organisms with their physical environment

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demographic

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a statistic characterizing human populations (or segments of human populations broken down by age, sex, income, etc.)

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conquistador

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sixteeth-century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas, from Colorado to Argentina, eventually conquering the Aztec and Incan empires

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encomienda

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Spanish government's policy to "commend" or give Indians to certain colonists in return for the promise to Christianize them; part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue Indian tribes

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mestizo

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people of mixed Indian and European heritage (in Mexico)

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province

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a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state