Chapter 3 Vocab 2
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- pueblos
- towns in new spain that were centers of farming and trade
- colony
- group of people who settle in a distant land and are ruled by the government of their native land
- astrolabe
- instrument used by sailors to figure out latitude at sea
- missions
- religious settlement run by catholic priest and friars
- manor
- part of a lord's holding in the middle ages
- Conquistador
- spanish word for conqueror
- caravel
- shipwith a steering rudder and triangular sails
- creoles
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person of mixed spainish and indian parents
- feudalism
- system of rule by lords who owe loyalty to a king
- magnectic compass
- instrument that shows which directionis north
- presidios
- fort with high adobe wall where spanish soliders lived
- plantations
- large estate farmed by many workers
- northwest passage
- waterway through or around north america
- encomiendos
- right to demand labor or taxes from native americans in new spain
- mestizos
- person of mixed spanish and indian background
- peninsulares
- person sent by spain to rule the spainish colonies