Unit 2 Vocab Review

An instrument used by sailors to determine their location by observing

the position of the stars and planets

• Astrolabe

• GPS

• navigation

• establish

To sail completely around the world

• GPS

• circumnavigate

• navigate

• astrolabe

A Spanish conqueror of the Americas

• Peninsular

• Captain

• Coureur de bois

• Conquistador

French fur traders who worked and lived among the American

peoples of North America

• pirate

• colonist

• Coureur de bois

• Conquistador

a Spanish system that allowed colonists to demand labor from

Native Americans

• conquistador

• encomienda

• peninsular

• pueblos

to set up or create

• establish

• deconstruction

• duplicate

• astrolabe

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their

wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more

goods than they bought

• establish

• astrolabe

• mercantilism

• navigation

the science of planning and controlling the direction of a ship

• navigation

• circumnavigate

• establish

• mercantilism

People living in the New World Spanish colonies but born in Spain.

• coureur de bois

• pueblos

• establish

• peninsular

a communal village built by the indigenous people of the southwestern

United States

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• pueblos

• peninsular

• coureur de bois

• astrolabe