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| Columbian Exchange | The movement of people, plants, animals, and germs in either direction across the Atlantic Ocean following the voyages of Columbus |
| conquistador | a name for conquerors who first came to the Americas in the 1500s |
| Charter | An official document giving a person permission to do something, such as settle in an area |
| Armarda | A large fleet of ships, especially war ships |
| Profit | the money remaining after the costs of a business have been paid |
| Historian | a person eho studies the past |
| Sachem | the leader or chief of any group Native Americans in the Eastern Woodlands and Great Lakes |
| Northwest Passage | A water route belived to flow through North America to Asia that European explorers searched for from the 1500s to the 1700s |
| Cash crop | a crop that is frown to be sold for profit |
| House of Burgesses | tha lawmaking body colonial Virginia established in Jamestown in 1619 |
| Expedition | A journey made for a speacial pupose. |
| Colony | A settlement far away from that country |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | English explorer, historian, and soldier who started two unsuccessful colonies at Roanoke Island in 1584 and 1587 |
| Henry Hudson | English explorer who searched for a Northwes Passage through North America beginning in 1609 |
| John Smith | English army captain whose strict discipline helped Jamestown settlement to survive |
| Pocahontas | Daughter of Chief Powhatan whose marrife to John Rolfe led to the "Peace of Pocahantas" from 1614 to 1617 |
| Cortes | Spanish conquistador who defeated that Aztec in 1525. He founded Mexico City |
| Squanto | Pawtuxet Native American who helped the pilgrams at Plymoth to survive |
| Sir Francis Drake | He led the Spanish Armarda in 1588 |
| Samuel deChaplain | Explorer and founder of Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in North America in 1608. He i know as the "father of New France" |
| John Rolfe | Jamestown leader whose method of curing tobbaco made it a successful cash crop |
| William Bradford | Governor of the Plymouth Colony beginning in 1621 |
| Verrazono | Italian sea captain in the service of France who searched for a Northwest passage in 1524 |
| Missionary | A person who teached his or her religon to others who have different beliefs. |
| Encomienda | A very large peice of land in New Spain given by the Spanish Government to certain Spanish colonies durring the 1500s |
