WHAP Unit 4 Vocab

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Joint stock companies acting as independent governments in claimed regions.

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British and Dutch East India Companies

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Southern tip of Africa explored by Europeans en route to India

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Cape of Good Hope

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Disease brought to the New World by Europeans, causing millions of Native American deaths.

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Smallpox

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People of mixed European and Native American ancestry in Mesoamerica and South America

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Mestizos

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Treaty of Paris resolved a dispute after which war?

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Seven Years' War

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Headquarters of the British East India Company in India?

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Calcutta

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Grants of Indian laborers to Spanish conquerors in Mesoamerica and South America

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Encomiendas

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Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec Empire

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Hernan Cortes

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Last independent emperor of the Aztecs, killed during Spanish conquest.

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Moctezuma II

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Treaty resolving Spain-Portugal exploration dispute in the New World

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Treaty of Tordesillas