Chapter 2 United States History Vocab.
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Astrolabe | a device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars |
| caravels | ships with triangular sails ,unlike the traditional square sails, which allowed ships to sail against the wind |
| Line of Demarcation | The imaginary line that divided the Atlantic Ocean. Spain owns all land west of the line. Portugal owns all the land east of the line. |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | a treaty which pushes the line of demarcation 800 miles further west |
| Circumnavigate | go all around the globe |
| Columbian Exchange | The transfer of different things between North America, Africa, and Europe. ( Europeans trade goods for slaves from Africa ) |
| Conquistadors | Spanish soldiers who led the military expeditions in the America |
| Econmienda system | It gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americans or to make them work. In exchange for protection from settlers and convert the Native to Christianity |
| planation | large farms that grew just one kind of crop |
| Protestants | reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church's practices |
| Protestant Reformation | a religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church |
| Spanish Armada | a large Spanish fleet defeated bu England in 1588 |
| Northwest Passage | a water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific |
| Charter | document giving him permission to start a colony |
| immune | natural resistance |
| Middle Passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies |
| African Disapora | Enslaved Africans were sent all across the New World |
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