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| Clan | a group of close-knit and interrelated families |
| Agricultural revolution | a period of technological improvement and increased crop productivity |
| Mesoamerica | region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to southern Mexico. |
| Mayans | civilization on the Yucatan peninsula and southern Mexico, known for mathematics, art, architecture and a calendar. |
| Iroquois Confederacy | an historically powerful Northeast Native American Confederacy |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | sponsored Portugal's voyages of discovery; |
| Christopher Columbus | An Italian explorer responsible for the European discovery of America in 1492 |
| Conquistador | a conqueror, especially one of the Spanish conquerors of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century. |
| Columbian exchange | was the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, and ideas between the Americas and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries, |
| Moctezuma | emperor of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest.;either killed by his own people or murdered by the Spanish. |
| encomienda | a grant by the Spanish Crown to a colonist in America conferring the right to demand tribute and forced labor from the Indian inhabitants of an area |
| Hernan Cortez | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztecs and conquered Mexico |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Florentine navigator who explored the coast of South America; America was named in his honor |
| Bartolomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who in 1488 was the first European to get round the Cape of Good Hope |
| Renaissance | period in Europe between the 14th and 17th centuries when there was a surge of interest in and production of art and literature. |
