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4885142084African Slave Trade0
4885142085AlgonquianThe Algonquian Native Americans are the most extensive and numerous North American groups1
4885142086Atlantic WorldMaritime commerce connected the peoples and nations that rimmed the Atlantic in a web of trade, conquest, settlement, and slavery2
4885142087Biological and Cultural ChangesImportation of european disesases to the new world. Assimilation of indian cultures into spainish colonys.3
4885142088CahokiaCahokia Mounds Remnants of the most sophisticated prehistoric native civilization north of Mexico.4
4885142089Catholic MissionsWere used as a main reason to set up colonies. Not only to get valuable resources but also to spread the word of god5
4885142090Charter Companieschartered companies, associations for foreign trade, exploration, and colonization that came into existence with the formation of the European nation states and their overseas expansion.6
4885142091Christopher ColumbasExplorer for spain who is considered a leader in discovering the new world7
4885142092ConquistadorsSpanish warriors who helped take over the south and north americas tribes8
4885142093Corn CultivationMost tribes were engaged in sedentary farming such as corn and other grains9
4885142094Coureurs De BoisCoureurs des bois were itinerant, unlicensed fur traders of New France known as "wood-runners" to the English on Hudson Bay and "bush-lopers" to the Anglo-Dutch of Albany10
4885142095Don Juan De OnateWas a conquistador who was in search of great treasurs in what is now present day mexico11
4885142096Encomiendaa grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indi12
4885142097Fur TradeIn the early 17th century, French traders began to use Huron (or Wyandot) middlemen to trade with the Native peoples in the Great Lakes region13
4885142098Henry HudsonHenry Hudson was originally hired tp find a shorter route from europe through asia by using cutting through the artic14
4885142099IroquoisTribal group of native americans15
4885142100JamestownOne of the first european settlements set up in virgina16
4885142101Matrilinealof or based on kinship with the mother or the female line.17
4885142102Mercantilismbelief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism18
4885142103Meso-AmericansMesoamerican civilization, the complex of indigenous cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century19
4885142104MestizosMestizo, plural mestizos, feminine mestiza, any person of mixed blood. In Central and South America it denotes a person of combined Indian and European extraction20
4885142105Pueblo RevoltIn 1680 the people known collectively as "Pueblos" rebelled against their Spanish overlords in the American Southwest21
4885142106PuritansGroup of settler that settled in the new world in hopes of being free to practice their religion freely22
4885142107Racial HeirarchyThe belief that on coler of skin. It bases off of the belief that different skin colors are better than the other23
4885142108RoanokeSpanish colony that misteriously had its inhabinents disappear24
4885142109Samuel DeChamplainFounder of new france/ quebec25
4885142110Separatista person who supports the separation of a particular group of people from a larger body on the basis of ethnicity, religion, or gender.26
4885142111Sir Walter RaleighEnglish adventurer who became a favorite of queen victoria27
4885142112SmallpoxDisease from europeans that wiped out natives28
4885142113TenochtitlanFamous city that was ruled by the mexicas29
4885142114Woodland IndiansMulitple tribes that lived in present day north eastern america30

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