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18 Cards in this Set
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Astrolabe |
navigational instrument used to determine latitude
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Caravel |
Ships that use triangular sails and had rudders to steer
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Circumnavigate |
travel all the way around the earth |
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Colony |
group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land |
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Columbian Exchange |
the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between people of the Eastern and Western Hemisphere |
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Conquistador |
name for the Spanish explorers who claimed lands in the Americas for Spain |
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Creole |
person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents |
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Encomienda |
land granted to Spanish settlers. Included the right to demand labor or taxes from the Native People |
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Immune |
having natural resistance to diseases |
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Line of Demarcation |
boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territory in New World
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Mestizo |
In Spanish American colonies, person of mixed Spanish and Indian background |
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Middle Passage |
a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas |
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Mission |
religious settlement run by Catholic priests & friars |
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Peninsulares |
people born in Spain and that held positions of power in a Spanish colony |
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Presidio |
forts where soldiers lived in Spanish colonies |
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Pueblo |
a town in the Spanish colonies; Anasazi village |
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Spanish Armada |
Large Spanish fleet defeated by the English in 1588
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Treaty of Tordesillas |
1494 Treaty between Spain & Portugal that moved the line of Demarcation |
