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| Columbian Exchange | the exchange of food, plants, animals, people, and diseases between the New World and the Old World |
| New World | Includes the continents of North American and South America; Western Hemisphere |
| Old World | Includes the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa; Eastern Hemisphere |
| Missionaries | Religious Europeans who felt it was their Christian duty to convert Natives to Christianity |
| Northwest Passage | an imaginary waterway that many explorers believed went through or around North America to Asia |
| Magnetic Compass | device that shows which direction is North and helps ship captains sail |
| Astrolabe | instrument used by sailors to measure the position of the stars thus figuring out their latitude at sea |
| Merchants | people who trade valuable goods |
| Conquistadors | Spanish word for conqueror, soldiers who explored and defeated Native Americans using “God, Gold, and Glory” as their reasons |
| Colony | group of people who settled in a distant land who are ruled by the government of their native land |
| Primary Source | a first hand account of an event by someone who experienced the event |
| Secondary Source | information about an event produced after the fact by those not involved in the event |
| Patroon | person who was given a large piece of land by the Dutch in exchange for bringing settlers and becoming the landlord |
