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| 4779461256 | Henry the Navigator | Portuguese man that sponsored voyages to open trade routes below Africa | 0 | |
| 4779461257 | Christopher Columbus | 1492 "Discovered" the Americas for European settlement, hired for Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain | 1 | |
| 4779461259 | Conquistadors | General term for Spanish explorers in the New World who sought to conquer the native people, establish dominance over their lands, and prosper from their natural resources, including gold | 2 | |
| 4779461260 | Encomienda system | King of Spain gave land grants to Spanish Conquistadors in return for the promise to Christianize them. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue the native population | 3 | |
| 4779461265 | Hernán de Soto | Was a Spanish conquistador who found the Apalachee and Timucua Indians, in a region by the 1540s. | 4 | |
| 4779461278 | Puritans | Wanted to reform the Anglican Church | 5 | |
| 4779482510 | Aztecs | are a group of semi nomadic warrior peoples who invaded the city of Teotihuacán, and the Aztecs created an extensive empire. They were dominant in Mexico until the spanish took over in the 16th century. | 6 | |
| 4779484766 | Hopewell Culture | The Hopewell people of present-day Ohio had increased their food supply by domesticating plants, organized themselves in large villages, and set of a trading network. This network allowed them to trade with places almost all over what is now the United States of America | 7 | |
| 4779488721 | Pueblo Peoples | Were a group of people who built structures, from a special kind clay and dirt, that were called pueblos. They built villages on steep cliffs, and were master architects. | 8 | |
| 4779489797 | Mississippian Culture | Was a large scale culture that emerged on the Mississippi river, the peoples of this culture produced an agricultural surplus, that allowed them to live in small, fortified temple cities, where they developed a robust culture. | 9 | |
| 4779492293 | Primogeniture | Is the practice where a father bestows most of their land to their eldest son, which forces many younger children to join the ranks of roaming poor. | 10 | |
| 4779493448 | Roman Catholic Church | Was a great unifying aspect of western Europe, It was made up of a pope, cardinals, bishops, and priests. Many catholic books helped to preserve latin and the christian religion provided a common understanding of god, the world, and human history. | 11 | |
| 4779494382 | Caravel | Is a small extremely fast Portuguese ship that was used from the 15th-17th centuries. | 12 | |
| 4779495351 | African Slavery | Portuguese traders joined African states and Arab merchants in the slave trade. Most slaves worked as agricultural laborers or served in slave armies, most were also treated as property. | 13 | |
| 4779496320 | Ferdinand & Isabella | Were Spanish monarchs, who financed the explorers who discovered the western hemisphere for Europeans. They also expelled or converted thousands of Jews and Muslims, to Christianity. | 14 | |
| 4779497497 | Hernán Cortes | was a conquistador from Spain that both conquered and destroyed a civilization. He had a mistress named Malinali, who helped to warn him of a possible attack from the Aztecs and was his translator. | 15 | |
| 4779498467 | Columbian Exchange | Is a process where the food products of the Western hemisphere were transferred to the peoples of other continents, significantly increasing agricultural yields and population growth worldwide. | 16 | |
| 4779499193 | Mestizo | Is a man of mixed race, the offspring of a Spaniard and American Indian. This is in Latin America. | 17 | |
| 4779500155 | Predestination | Is the divine foretelling of all that will happen, especially with regard to the salvation of some and not others. | 18 | |
| 4779506260 | Church of England | is Protestant and is governed by bishops, with the king or queen as its official head. | 19 | |
| 4779507041 | Spanish Armada | Was a Spanish fleet of 130 ships that sailed from A Coruña in August 1588, under the command of the Duke of Medina Sidonia with the purpose of escorting an army from Flanders to invade England. | 20 | |
| 4779507541 | Mercantilism | A system of state-assisted manufacturing and trade. | 21 | |
| 4779508310 | Price Revolution | The massive expenditure of american gold and silver by Philip II had doubled the money supply of Europe and sparked a major economic upheaval. | 22 | |
| 4779508774 | Enclosure Movement | Laws that allowed owners to fence in the open fields that surrounded may peasant villages and put sheep to graze on them. | 23 | |
| 4779509341 | Indenture | Is a contract in which the individual agreed to work without wages for four or five years in exchange for passage to America and room and board for the term of the contract. | 24 |
