Age of Exploration, African Empires, Meso/South American Empire

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farm crop raised to be sold for money

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Cash-Crop

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A chattel slave is an enslaved person who is owned forever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved. Slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold.

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Chattel Slavery

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large estate farmed by many workers

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Plantation

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A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.

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Triangular Trade

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Attempt by one country to establish settlements and to impose its political, economic, and cultural principles in another territory.

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Colonialism

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A movement from one country or region to another

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Migration

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extreme scarcity of food

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Famine

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Regional outbreak of a disease

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Epidemic

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A person who spreads his or her religious beliefs to others

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Missionary

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A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

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Conquistador