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| Christopher Columbus | Genoese explorer who sailed for Spain. He sailed West, looking for Asia and dsicovered the new World |
| Columbian Exchange | An exchange of plants, animals and diseases between the Old and New Worlds |
| Conquistadores | Spanish for "soldiers". These men followed Columbus and conquered parts of Central and South America |
| Enclosure Acts | Laws passed in England during the 1500s where common land was fenced off by rich farmers. It caused many poorer farmers off the land. Many of them ended up as indentured servants in North America |
| Encomiendas | The system of rewarding conquistadores with land including the right to tax and extract labor from Native Americans |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistadore who conquered the Aztec Empire |
| Land Bridge | This appeared during the last Ice Age, and it enabled Native Americans to cross from Asia into the Americas |
| Mestizos | A person of mixed blood / ancestry in the Spanish New World Empire |
| Fransico Pizarro | A Spanish conquistadore who conquered the Inca Empire in 1542 |
| Price Revolution | A period of inflation in Europe caused by New World gold and silver entering the European economy |
| Reconquista | Achieved in 1492, this marked the reuinifcation of Spain after Ferdinnd and Isabella had driven out the last Muslims from the Spanish kingdom of Granada |
| Reformation | Inistigated by Martin Luther, this movement divided Europe into Protestants and Catholic |
| Renaissance | Literally "rebirth"...the redicovery of old forms of learning in Europe...one of the reasons Europe became more "outward looking" by the 1400s. |
| Spanish Armada | Sent by Phillip II of Spain, a 130 ship (30,000 men) expedition to invade England that failed. England's star rose after this...Spain's fell |
