Exploration Vocabulary

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Conquistador

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Explorer-soldiers from Spain & Portugal who came to the Americas looking for land, adventure & gold and conquered most of the Americas.

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Exploration

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Explorer-soldiers from Spain & Portugal who came to the Americas looking for land, adventure & gold and conquered most of the Americas.

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Voyage

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a long journey involving travel by sea or in space.

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settlement

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A place where people live.

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colony

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A group of people from a different country who settle in a new place but keep ties to their homeland (Mother Country).

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Columbian Exchange

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The Columbian Exchange was a massive exchange of crops, animals, people, diseases, goods and ideas between the Old World (Africa, Asia, Europe) and the New World (the Americas).

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convert

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a person who has been persuaded to change their religion to another religion

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epidemic

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the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time. 

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indigenous

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the rapid spread of disease to a large number of hosts in a given population within a short period of time. 

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diaspora

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the movement, migration, or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland