FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APWH 4.1-4.4 VOCAB

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT APWH 4.1-4.4 VOCAB

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Question 1: Encomendero

Answer:

holder of an encomienda; able to use Indians as workers or to tax them

Question 2: Northwest Passage

Answer:

a water route between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans along the northern coast of North America

Question 3: Encomienda

Answer:

system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and teaching them skills

Question 4: Great Peace of Montreal

Answer:

a peace agreement between the French and the Iroquois

Question 5: Primogeniture Laws

Answer:

the right, by law or custom, of the firstborn noble child to inherit the family estate, in preference to siblings. In the absence of children, the inheritance is passed to collateral relatives, in seniority, typically to males.

Question 6: Galleons

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large, heavily armed ships used to carry silver from New World colonies to Spain; basis for convoy system utilized by Spain for transportation of bullion.

Question 7: Treaty of Tordesillas

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an agreement between Portugal and Spain which declared that newly discovered lands to the west of an imaginary line in the Atlantic Ocean would belong to Spain and newly discovered lands to the east of the line would belong to Portugal

Question 8: Trading Post Empire

Answer:

type of empire established by Portuguese in Indian Ocean trading arena. They sought to control the commerce in the area and did not want to control large areas of land

Question 9: Indentured servitude

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a worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination. Before 1800, most were Europeans. After 1800, more indentured laborers were Asians

Question 10: Cash crop

Answer:

a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower

Question 11: Creole

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a language the results from the mixing of a colonizer's language with the indigenous language of the people being dominated

Question 12: Mercantilism

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an economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests.

Question 13: Francisco Pizarro

Answer:

Spanish explorer who conquered the Incas in what is now Peru and founded the city of Lima

(1475-1541)

Question 14: East India Company

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an English company formed in 1600 to develop trade with the new British colonies in India and Southeastern Asia

Question 15: Prince Henry the Navigator

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(1394-1460) Prince of Portugal who established an observatory and school of navigation at Sagres and directed voyages that spurred the growth of Portugal's colonal empire

Question 16: Ferdinand Magellan

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Portuguese navigator who led the Spanish expedition of 1519-1522 that was the first to sail around the world (circumnavigate).

Question 17: Polygyny

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the practice or condition of a man having more than one wife at a time.

Question 18: African Diaspora

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the separation of Africans from their homeland through centuries of forced removal to serve as slaves in the Americas and elsewhere

Question 19: colonies

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a group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation

Question 20: Omani-European Rivalry

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a trade rivalry between the Omani of the Middle East and the European traders

Question 21: Columbian Exchange

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the exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

Question 22: Engenhos

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Portuguese term for sugar cane mill and the associated facilities

Question 23: Sepoys

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Indian troops who served in the British army

Question 24: Caravel

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small, highly maneuverable three-masted ship used by the Portuguese and Spanish in the exploration of the Atlantic.

Question 25: Middle Passage

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a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

Question 26: Hernan Cortes

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1485-1547; Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico