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Ch. 2 Sections 1-2

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    Conquistadors & Exploreres
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  • What is Mercantilism?
    an economic policy that gives a country sole ownership of the trade occuring in its colonies
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  • What do you call a person who tries to spread Christianity to others?
    A missionary
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  • Who is a viceroy?
    a governor of Spain’s colonies in the Americas who represented the Spanish king and queen
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  • What do you call a territory governed by a viceroy?
    a viceroyalty
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  • Who is a conquistador?
    a Spanish conqueror who sought gold and other riches in the Americas
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  • What is a deadly virus that causes a high fever and small blisters on the skin?
    Smallpox
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  • What does circumnavigate mean?
    to travel completely around Earth
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  • What is the term for a passage by sea between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans along the north coast of North America?
    the Northwest Passage
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  • What is a heretic?
    a person who holds beliefs different from the teachings of the Catholic Church
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  • What is the term that means to punish, particularly because of beliefs or background
    persecute
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  • What is a watershed?
    an area of land that includes a particular river or lake and all the bodies of water that flow into it
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  • What is a large sailing ship used especially by the Spanish in the 16th and 17th centuries called?
    a galleon
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  • What is a privateer?
    an armed but privately owned ship that acts under the authority of a government to participate in warfare; or a sailor on such a ship
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  • What were the conquistadors looking for in North America?
    cities of gold
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  • What did Amerigo Vespucci’s explorations reveal?
    South America was a huge landmass.
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  • Why did the Spanish appoint viceroys?
    to rule the territories claimed by Spain
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