| A | B |
|---|
| straight | narrow passage that connects two bodies of water |
| circumnavigate | to travel all the way around the owrld |
| Columbian Exchange | the trasfer of people, products and ideas between Western and Eastern hemispheres |
| conquistador | conqueror- especially one of the 16th century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian cicilzations of Mexico, Central America or Peru |
| plantation | large estate farmed by many workers |
| encomienda | land granted to Spanish settlers that included the right to demand labor and taxes from Native Americans |
| mission | religious settlement ran by Catholic Priests and friars; settlement that aims to spread a religion into a new area |
| peninsular | Spanish colonist who was born in Spain |
| mercantilism | economic policy that held that a nation prospered by exporting more goods to foreign nations than it imported from them |
| northwest passage | water route through or around North America |
| coureur debois | French term for "runner of the wood" |
| alliance | agreement between countries to aid and support one another |
