Latin American History Vocab Flashcard

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Main disease from Europeans to Natives causing many deaths.

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smallpox

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Exchange of plants, animals, technologies, and ideas between the Old World and the New World.

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Columbian Exchange

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Primary language in Brazil

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Portuguese

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Primary language in most of Latin America (excluding Brazil)

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Spanish

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Term for native peoples or species of a place, e.g., Latin America's "indigenas".

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indigenous

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Spanish conqueror/soldier of the Americas

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conquistador

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Region including Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, and South America; primarily Spanish and Portuguese speakers.

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Latin America

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Term for the newly discovered Americas during the European Age of Exploration

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New World

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Spanish agricultural plantations in colonial Latin America.

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hacienda

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Enslavement and forced transport of 12-15 million Africans to the Americas (15th-19th centuries)

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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade