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| Tainos | West Indian people first encountered by Columbus |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs and Tenochtitlan |
| Malinche | Aztec woman who served as a translator for Cortes |
| Moctezuma | Aztec emperor defeated by the Spanish |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who overtook the Incas in Peru |
| Atahualpa | Incan leader who was kidnapped and killed by the Spanish |
| Council of the Indies | Spanish council that monitored colonial officials, maintaining strict control |
| Bartolome de las Casas | Spanish priest who worked to end abuses against Native Americans |
| New Laws of the Indies | passed in 1542, these laws forbid the enslavement of Native Americans |
| Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz | Refused admission to the Univ of Mexico, this girl later became know of the greatest poets of the Spanish language |
| Samuel de Champlain | founder of the first permanent French settlement in Quebec |
| Louis XIV | French king who wanted to strengthen royal power and income by an overseas empire |
| Jamestown | First permanent English colony, built in 1607 |
| Pilgrims | English setters who came to Plymouth, MA seeking religious freedom |
| Mayflower Compact | document which set out guidelines for governing the North American colony |
| French and Indian War | 7-years War, a struggle for power in North American between the British and the French |
| Treaty of Paris 1763 | officially ended the French and Indian War, ensured British dominance in North America |
| Middle Passage | Terrible voyage that took Africans to slavery in the Americas |
| Asante | led by Osei Tutu, the _____ conquered neighboring tribes and organized a new kingdom |
| Usman dan Fodio | Fulani scholar who set up an Islamic state in West Africa |
| Boer | Dutch immigrants who lived and farmed in South Africa |
| Shaka | leader of the Zulus who waged war and conquered neighboring tribes |
| Great Trek | Boer families escaped British rule in South Africa by travelling north in covered wagons |
| Colombian Exchange | global exchange of people, plants, and animals - even technology and disease |
| commercial revolution | the price revolution, growth of capitalism and new business methods that changed the way Europe did business |
| putting-out system | distribution of wool to peasant cottages where it was spun into thread and woven into cloth |
