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1.3 - Academic Vocabulary

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Bedevil ~ Everywhere in the Americas, a crushing demand for labor bedeviled Europeans because there were not enough colonists to perform the work necessary to keep the colonies going.

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Bedevil ~ Everywhere in the Americas, a crushing demand for labor bedeviled Europeans because there were not enough colonists to perform the work necessary to keep the colonies going.

verb ~ to confuse, annoy, or cause problems or difficulties for someone or something

Cash crop ~ By the middle of the 1500s, Africans formed an important element of the labor landscape, producing the cash crops of sugar and tobacco for European markets.

noun ~ a plant that is grown to be sold

Demise ~ The disease took a heavy toll on the people in Tenochtitlan, playing a much greater role in the city's demise than did Spanish force of arms.

noun ~ a person's death

Demonize ~ By demonizing the Spanish, they justified their own efforts as more humane.

verb ~ to try to make someone or a group of people seem as if they are evil

Depiction ~ AJ Miller's depiction of a meeting between a French fur trader and Native Americans.

noun ~ a drawing or illustrion of something

Destabilize ~ Without her, Cortés would not have been able to communicate, and without the language bridge, he surely would have been less successful in destabilizing the Aztec Empire.

verb ~ to make something have a high chance of failing

Dovetail ~ At first, the Pueblo adopted the parts of Catholicism that dovetailed with their own long-standing view of the world.

verb ~ to fit or join together

Floodgate ~ Columbus's discovery opened a floodgate of Spanish exploration.

noun ~ a gate that can be opened or closed to control a flow of water

Foment ~ In August 1521, having successfully fomented civil war as well as fended off rival Spanish explorers, Cortés claimed Tenochtitlan for Spain and renamed it Mexico City.

verb ~ to get trouble started

Hone ~ Their finely honed agricultural system, which utilized tiered fields in the mountains, was completely disbanded.

verb ~ to make more effective, to improve or perfect

Horrendous ~ Denied control over their lives, slaves endured horrendous conditions.

adjective ~ terrible

Interloper ~ This angered the people of Tenochtitlan, who rose up against the interlopers in their city.

noun ~ a person who joins in an activity or group without being asked

Malleable ~ Inspired by tales of rivers of gold and timid, malleable natives, later Spanish explorers were relentless in their quest for land and gold.

adjective ~ easy to change into a new shape

Saga ~ If the story of the Conquest of the Americas by the Spanish seems to be a long saga of failure and suffering on the part of Native Americans and Africans, that is because it is indeed a long saga of suffering.

noun ~ a long story

Sidekick ~ With his faithful sidekick Sancho Panza, Don Quixote leaves reality behind and sets out to revive chivalry by doing battle with what he perceives as the enemies of Spain.

noun ~ a helper or assistant that is always around