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| Christopher Columbus | Genose sea captain who made a daring voyage for Spain 1492 |
| Colony | land controlled by distant nation. |
| Hernando Cortes | Spaniard who landed on the shores of Mexico. |
| Conquistador | The spanish soldiers,explorers, and fortune hunters who took part in the conquest of the Americans in the 16th century. |
| Francisco Pizarro | A Conquistador who marched a small force into South America and conquered the Incan Empire |
| Atahualpa | An Incan ruler |
| Mestizo | A person of mixed Spanish and Native American ancestry. |
| Encomienda | A grant of land made by Spain to settler in the Americas, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it. |
| New France | The base of France's colonial empire in North America. |
| Jamestown | Settlement on the coast of virginia named in honor of their king. |
| Pilgrims | A group of people who, in 1620, founded the colony of Plymouth in Massachusetts to escape religious persecution in England. |
| Puritans | A group of people who sought freedom from religious persecution in England by founding a colony at Massachusetts Bay in the early 1600s. |
| New Netherland | The Dutch holdings in North America. |
| French and Indian War | A conflict between Briatain and France for control of territory in North America, lasting from 1754 to 1763. |
| Metacom | Native American ruler. |
| Atlantic Slave Trade | The buy,transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas. |
| Triangular Trade | The translantic trading network along which slaves and other goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America. |
| Middle Passage | THe voyage that brought captured Africans to the Westindies, and later to North and South America, to be sold as slaves-so called because it was considered the middle leg of the triangular trade. |
| Columbian Exchange | The global transfer of plants, animals, and diseases that occured during the European colonizaton of the Americas. |
| Capitalism | An economic system based on private ownership and on the investment of money in business ventures in order to make profit. |
| Joint-Stock Company | A busisness in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits. |
| Mercantilism | An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought. |
| Favorable Balance of Trade | An economic situation in which a counrty sells more goods abroad than it buys from abroad. |
