Jess Social Studies
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- astrolab
- device used to figure out position of the stars
- caravel
- ship with sails in the shape of triangles
- charter
- legal document entitling an individual or business to certain rights
- city states
- independent town with its own government
- colony
- mass of people who inhabit a certain area and are ruled by its government
- conquistador
- Spanish word for conqueror
- Creole
- an individual born to parents of Spanish descent in a Spanish colony
- encomienda
- permission given to Spanish settlers by the Spanish government to force Native Americans to work and pay taxes
- feudalism
- control by lords who owe loyalty to a king
- kinship network
- strong ties among members of the same family
- Magna Carta
- a manuscript giving rights to English nobles
- magnetic compass
- an instrument that always points toward the North Pole
- manor
- a town governed by a lord
- Mayflower Compact
- an accord signed by the Pilgrims for complete rule over Plymouth colony
- mestizo
- a person whose background is a mix of Spanish and Indian
- middle passage
- trip from Africa to Americas in which numerous slaves perished at sea
- mission
- a colony established to extend the beliefs of a religion to other people
- monarch
- a queen or king
- Northwest Passage
- the passage around or crossing North America
- Parliment
- a representative assembly in England
- peninsulare
- Spaniard who once held status or power in a Spanish colony
- plantation
- large land farmed by numerous people
- presidio
- fort inhabited by pople in spanish colonies
- Protestant Reformation
- the movement that transformed the Roman Catholic Church
- pueblo
- village in a Spanish colony
- representative government
- government in which representatives who form the laws are chosen by the people
- serf
- peasant who labored for a lord and was prevented from fleeing without the lords affirmation