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8 Cards in this Set
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Caravel
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a type of ship that used either square or lateen sails to travel long distances
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Circumnavigation
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a journey around the world by ship
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Armada
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a fleet of warships
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Conquistador
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a Spanish adventurer who came to the Americas in search of gold
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Immunity
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resistance to disease
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Columbian Exchange
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the movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Amercas in the 1400 & 1500's
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Encomienda
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a system in which Native Americans had to work for European colonists and accept their religion
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Coureurs de bois
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runners of the woods refering to French trapers who traded with Native Americans
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