Vocab for ch. 1 of A People and A Nation 9th ed. Norton
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| 302616833 | Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who claimed the island of San Salvador in the Bahamas for the King and Queen of Spain. | 1 | |
| 302616834 | Colombian Exchange | The widespread exchange of animals, plants, germs and peoples from Europe, Africa and the Americas. | 2 | |
| 302616835 | Conquistadors | Spanish conquerors or adventurers in the Americas. | 3 | |
| 302616836 | Encomienda | Grants by the Spanish which awarded Indian labor to Spanish colonists. | 4 | |
| 302743068 | John Cabot | Italian explorer who established English claims in the New World. | 5 | |
| 302743069 | Moveable Type | Type in which each character is cast on a separate piece of metal. | 6 | |
| 302743070 | Norse | Also known as Vikings, they were a warrior culture from Scandinavia. | 7 | |
| 302743071 | Paleo-Indians | The earliest peoples of the Americas. | 8 | |
| 302743072 | Plantation | A large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor. | 9 | |
| 302743073 | The City of the Sun "Cahokia" | Area located near modern St. Louis, Missouri, where about twenty thousand people inhabited a metropolitan area. | 10 | |
| 302743074 | Printing Press | A machine that transfers lettering or images by contact with various forms of inked surface onto paper or similar material fed into it in various ways. | 11 | |
| 302743075 | Vinland | The site of the first known attempt at European settlement in the Americas. | 12 |
