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| 5114738378 | animism | spiritual beliefs that center on the natural world | 0 | |
| 5114740845 | capitalism | an economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange of wealth is made and maintained chiefly by private individuals or corporations | 1 | |
| 5114745434 | civic humanism | the belief that individuals owe a service to their community and its government | 2 | |
| 5114750679 | colonization | to settle; to establish a colony | 3 | |
| 5114755634 | Columbian Exchange | the massive global exchange of living things, including people, animals, plants, and diseases, between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres that began after the voyages of Columbus | 4 | |
| 5114762505 | cultural autonomy | self-government by a cultural group | 5 | |
| 5114780166 | encomienda system | a system where Spanish settlers protected and taught Native Americans in return for their labor | 6 | |
| 5114792696 | feudalism | the political, military, and social system in the Middle Ages, based on the holding of lands in fief or fee and on the resulting relations between lord and vassal. (the vassal worked for the lord in exchange for protection) | 7 | |
| 5114801035 | indigenous people | originating in and characteristic of a particular region or country; native | 8 | |
| 5114809229 | Iroquois Confederacy | confederation of five (later six) Indian tribes across upper New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery of North America. | 9 | |
| 5114818672 | predestination | the Protestant Christian belief that God chooses certain people for salvation before they are born | 10 | |
| 5114823609 | primogeniture | the practice of passing family land, by will or custom, to the eldest son | 11 | |
| 5114827552 | Puritans | dissenters from the Church of England who wanted a genuine Reformation rather than the partial Reformation sought by Henry VIII. Their principles emphasized the importance of a relationship with God developed through Bible study, prayer, and introspection | 12 | |
| 5114840364 | separatists | a person who withdraws, or secedes, from a church or organization | 13 | |
| 5114848590 | social diversification | creation of a culture from a variety of other cultures | 14 | |
| 5114865110 | transatlantic slave trade | 15 | ||
| 5114873319 | Christopher Columbus | an Italian sailor who sailed to the New World in the name of Spain; landed in present-day Bahamas | 16 | |
| 5114899534 | Amerigo Vespucci | Italian explorer who explored the coast of South America and stated that the Western Hemisphere was not Asia but a "new world" | 17 |
