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| 1448545615 | hierarchal | classified according to various criteria into successive levels or layers | 1 | |
| 1448545616 | egalitarian | A person who believes in the equality of all people | 2 | |
| 1448545617 | matrilineal | relating to a social system in which family descent and inheritance rights are traced through the mother | 3 | |
| 1448545618 | patrilineal | based on or tracing descent through the male line | 4 | |
| 1448545619 | polytheistic | Belief in many gods | 5 | |
| 1448545620 | mestizo | A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry | 6 | |
| 1448545621 | Dual Sex Principle | women ruled women and men ruled men; actions were subject to scrutiny by members of their own sex | 7 | |
| 1448545622 | Pueblo | a communal village built by Indians in the southwestern United States | 8 | |
| 1448545623 | Iroquois | A later native group to the eastern woodlands. They blended agriculture and hunting living in common villages constructed from the trees and bark of the forests | 9 | |
| 1448545624 | Madeira Plantation | plantation captured by Brazil primarily used for sugar production | 10 | |
| 1448545625 | Columbus | Italian navigator who discovered the New World in the service of Spain while looking for a route to China (1451-1506) | 11 | |
| 1448545626 | John Cabot | English explorer who claimed Newfoundland for England while looking for Northwest Passage | 12 | |
| 1448545627 | Treaty of Tordesilla | 1494 agreement authorized by the pope, dividing all discoveries in the New World btwn Spain & Portugal; other European countries soon ignored this agreement and claimed their own territories. | 13 | |
| 1448545628 | Taino People | lived in villages and grew corn, yams, and cotton, which they wove into cloth. They were friendly and open toward the Spanish, but they were soon brutally conquered by them. | 14 | |
| 1448545629 | Conquistadors | Early-sixteenth-century Spanish adventurers who conquered Mexico, Central America, and Peru. (Examples Cortez, Pizarro, Francisco.) | 15 | |
| 1448545630 | Encomienda System | A system whereby the Spanish crown granted the conquerors the right to forcibly employ groups of Indians; it was a disguised form of slavery. | 16 | |
| 1448545631 | Trans-Saharan Trade | The trade route that streches across the Sahara desert | 17 | |
| 1448545632 | Columbian Exchange | An exchange of goods, ideas and skills from the Old World (Europe, Asia and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa. | 18 | |
| 1448545633 | Hernan Cortes | 1485-1547, Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico | 19 |
