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33 Cards in this Set
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Cartographer
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Mapmaker.
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Asrolabe
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Instrument uded to determine latitude by measuring the position of the stars.
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Caravel
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Improved type of sailing ship in the 1400's.
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Scurvy
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Diease caused by lack of vitamin C in someones's diet.
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Line of Demarcation
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Separted Spain and Portugal's claims in the new world-claimed by the Pope.
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Circumnavigate
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Travel all the way around the Earth.
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Matrilineal
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Term for a family organization in which kinship ties are traced through the mother.
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Outpost
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Distant military station.
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Sepoys
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Indian soldiers in teh army set up by the French or English East India company.
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Conquistador
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Name for the Spanish Explorers who claimed lands int he Americas for Spain in the 1500's and 1600's.
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Immunity
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Natural Protection.
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Alliance
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Formal agreement between two or more nations or power to cooperate and come to one another's defense.
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Civil War
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War fought between two groups of people in the same nation.
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Viceroys
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Representative who ruled one of Spain's provinces in the Amercicas in the king's name; one who governed in India in the name of the Bristish monarch.
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Plantations
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Large estate run by an owener or overseer and worked by laborers who live there.
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Encomiendas
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Right the Spanish government granted to its American colonists to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans.
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Peons
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Worker forced to labor for a landlord in order to pay off a debt.
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Peninsulares
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Member of the highest class in Spain's colonies in the Americas.
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Creoles
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Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was a American-born descendant of Spanish settlers.
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Mestizos
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Person in Spain's colonies in the Americas who was of Native American and European descent.
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Mulattoes
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In Spain's colonies in the Americas, person of African and European descent.
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Missionaries
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Someone who is sent on a religious mission.
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Revenues
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Money taken in through taxes.
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Compact
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An agreement.
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Triangular Trade
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Colonial trade route among Europe and its colnies, the West Indies, and Africa in which goods were exchanged for slaves.
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Repeal
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To cancel.
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Monopoly
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Complete control of a product or business by one person or group.
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Inflation
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Economic cycle that involves a rapid rise in prices linked to a sharp increase inthe amount of money available.
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Capitalism
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Economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for profit.
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Entrepreneurs
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People whoo assumes financial risks in the hope of making a profit.
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Joint Stock Company
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Private trading company in which shared are sold to investors to finance business ventures.
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Mercantilism
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Policy by which a nation sought o export more than it imported in order to build its supply of gold and silver.
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Tariff
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Tax on imported goods.
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