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Ch. 2 vocabulary

Across
Having a natural resistance to disease
A nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific
An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony
Spanish soldiers and explorers who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain
A system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity
Reformers who protested certain practices of the Catholic Church
A religious movement started by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church
The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa
A device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the starts
A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies
The way something is set up or organized
Down
Boundary between Spanish and Portuguese territories in the New World
A treaty between Spain and Portugal that moved the Line of Demarkation
The population of displaced Africans and their descendants around the world
A change that is a result or consequence of an action or other cause
A large Spanish fleet that was defeated by England in 1588
Large farms that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit
Ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind, and had rudders to improve steering
The defeat and assumption of control of a place or people by military force