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| Far East | Area of Asia that included India, China, Japan and southeastern Asia |
| Indies | Another name for the Far East used by Europeans beginning in the 1400's. |
| New World | Name given in the 15th century by Amerigo Vespucci to the newly discovered continents of South America, North America and surrounding areas |
| Line of Demarcation | Line drawn by Pope Alexander in 1493 to divide the rights to the New World between Spain and Portugal |
| colonize | to set up a colony |
| La Florida | The Spanish name for the Southeast in the 1500s and 1600s. |
| Huguenots | Persecuted French Protestants who fled to North America in the 16th and 17th centuries. |
| missions | church outposts, usually in foreign lands |
| friar | Catholic missionaries, particularly from Spain, who worked in the church missions and outposts in foreign lands |
| Guale | The name Spain gave to the northern half of Georgia's coast, taken from the name of the Indians who inhabited the area. |
| Mocama | The Spanish province, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, on the southern half of Georgia's coast between the Altahama and St. Marys rivers |
| garrison | a unit of soldiers |
| colony | a territory on foreign soil claimed, settled, and controlled by another country |
| charter | a legal document that grants certain rights or privileges |
| mercantilism | a trade policy based n the idea that a country should sell more to other countries than it buys from them, in order to increase its' wealth |
| Puritans | Members of a Protestant religious group who were opposed to the church of England's practices and wanted to change them. |
| Pilgrims | Members of a religious group that chose to break away from the Church of England. They settled in America in 1620. |
| corporate colony | colony established through a grant of land made by the king to a corporation or company |
| joint-stock colony | a business given an exclusive charter by the king to settle a new colony in America. |
| proprietary colony | Established when a king issued a charter granting ownership of a colony to a person or group |
| royal colony | a colony set up and run directly by the British government in the 17th and 18th centuries. |
| buffer | a protected area along the frontier to defend more settled areas |
