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33 Cards in this Set
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cartographer
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mapmaker
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conquistador
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spanish explorers
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mestizos
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someone of native american and european descent
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entrepreneurs
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person who assumes financial risks in the hope of making a profit
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astrolabe
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instrument usd to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars
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immunity
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natural protection
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mulattoes
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a person of african and european descent
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joint stock company
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private trading company in which shares are sold to investors to finance business ventures
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caravel
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improved type of sailing ship in the 1400s
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alliance
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formal agreement between two or more nations or powers to cooperate and come to one another's defense
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missionaries
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someone sent on a religious mission
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mercantilism
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policy by which a nation sought to export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver
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scurvy
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disease caused by the lack of vitamin c in someone's diet
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civil war
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war fought between two groups of people of the same nation
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revenues
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money taken in through taxes
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tariff
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tax on imported goods
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line of demarcation
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Any territory discovered on the East side of the line was to be controlled by Portugal, while any lands found on the West side of the line were to be ruled over by Spain.
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viceroys
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ruler in the kings name over spains provinces in america
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compact
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agreement
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circumnavigate
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to travel around something
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plantations
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large estate run by an overseer and worked on by laborers who lived there
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triangular trade
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colonial slave trade route
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matrilineal
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family organization in which kinship ties are traced through the mother
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encomiendas
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right the spanish goverment granted their colonists in america to demand labor from the native americans
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repeal
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cancel
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outpost
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distant military station
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peons
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worker forced to to labor to pay off debt
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monopoly
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one personcompany has complete control of aa business
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sepoys
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indian soldier in an army set up by the french or english east india trading company
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peninsulares
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member of the highest class in spain's american colonies
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inflation
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rapid rise in prices due to the sharp increase in the amount of money available
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creoles
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a person in spain's american colonies that was a american born descendant of spanish settlers
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capitalism
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businesses are privately owned and operated for profit
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