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| 14858648935 | maize cultivation | The growing of Indian corn, a staple of many Indians diets, leading many nomadic tribes to settle and develop great civilizations such as the Aztecs incas and Mayans. | 0 | |
| 14858648936 | hunter-gatherer economy | A nomadic way of life with no agriculture focused on following food sources including animals and wild plants | 1 | |
| 14858648937 | western hemisphere | The Americas |  | 2 |
| 14858648938 | west africa | A area of Africa that was previously unreachable until the invention of the caravel by the Portuguese, leading to exploitation of the region for its gold and slaves |  | 3 |
| 14858648939 | plantation-based agriculture | Large scale agriculture worked by slaves | 4 | |
| 14858648940 | capitalism | Economic system based on private investment and possessions | 5 | |
| 14858648941 | Cultural autonomy | Freedom of a group to express ones own culture without outside control i.g. The Christianization of the natives took away there Cultural autonomy | 6 | |
| 14858648942 | great basin | Desert area with no drainage to the ocean |  | 7 |
| 14858648943 | agricultural economy | economy based on the production of crops | 8 | |
| 14858648944 | spanish exploration | Colonization of the Americas by the conquistadors in search for gold, glory and god | 9 | |
| 14858648945 | encomienda system | A government system where natives were given to colonists to work in return for converting them to Christianity. | 10 | |
| 14858648946 | empire building | The Spanish increasing their empire through grafting their culture onto the natives and taking over the land | 11 | |
| 14858648947 | white superiority | The European idea they were superior to other cultures/ races and needed to enforce European culture/religion on them | 12 | |
| 14858648948 | great plains | The open plains of the Midwest where the natives adapted to roming the prairies on horseback | 13 | |
| 14858648949 | permanent villages | The settlements of Indians tribes based on the spread of agriculture | 14 | |
| 14858648950 | Portuguese exploration | Due to advancements in sailing technology the Portuguese were able to sail down the coast of Africa and open trade of gold and slaves, settle and make plantations and eventually find the way around Africa to the indies | 15 | |
| 14858648951 | slave labor | Forced labor of people considered property by the people in charge | 16 | |
| 14858648952 | feudalism | A political, economic, and social system based on the relationship between lord and vassal in order to provide protection | 17 | |
| 14858648953 | political autonomy | the ability of a state to govern themselves without outside control | 18 | |
| 14858648954 | Colombian exchange | the exchange between the new world and the old world consisting of the old world bringing wheat, cows, horses, sheep, pigs, sugar, rice, coffee, smallpox, malaria and yellow fever. while the new world sent gold, silver, corn, potatoes, tobacco, and syphills |  | 19 |
