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| 6978102544 | conquistador | A Spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas. | 0 | |
| 6978102543 | Columbian Exchange | The transfer of goods, crops, and diseases between New and Old World societies after 1492. | 1 | |
| 6978102545 | encomienda | The Spanish labor system in which persons were held to unpaid service under the permanent control of their masters, though not legally owned by them. | 2 | |
| 6978102547 | mestizos | People of mixed Indian and European heritage, notably in Mexico. | 3 | |
| 6978102548 | middlemen | In trading systems, those dealers who operate between the original producers of goods and the retail merchants who sell to consumers. | 4 | |
| 6978102549 | nation-states | The form of political society that combines centralized government with a high degree of ethnic and cultural unity. | 5 | |
| 6978102551 | plantation | Large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor. | 6 | |
| 6978231715 | matrilinear | The form of society in which family line, power, and wealth are passed primarily through the female side. | 7 | |
| 6978240709 | confederacy | An alliance or league of nations or peoples looser than a federation. | 8 | |
| 6978249332 | primeval | Concerning the earliest origins of things. | 9 | |
| 6978260868 | caravel | A small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails. | 10 | |
| 6978338232 | capitalism | An economic system characterized by private property, generally free trade, and open and accessible markets. | 11 | |
| 6978349225 | province | A medium-sized subunit of territory and governmental administration within a larger nation or empire. | 12 | |
| 7056901131 | black legend | The idea developed during North American colonial times that the Spanish utterly destroyed the Indians through slavery and disease and left nothing of value. | 13 | |
| 7056907137 | Canadian Shield | The geological shape of North America estimated at 10 million years ago. It held the northeast corner of North America in place and was the first part of North America theorized to come above sea level | 14 | |
| 7056910212 | Treaty of Tordesillas | In 1494, Spain and Portugal were disputing the lands of the New World, so the Spanish went to the Pope, and he divided the land of South America for them. Spain got the vast majority, the west, and Portugal got the east. | 15 |
