Vocabulary List 4

Born in a particular place or country

• Mestizo

• Conquistador

• Native

• Culture

A distant territory belonging to or under the control of a nation

• New World

• Culture

• Old World

• Colony

A leader in the Spanish conquest of America and especially of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century

• Conquistador

• Mestizo

• Slavery

• Native

Those parts of Earth known to Europeans before the voyages of Christopher Columbus

• New World

• Columbian Exchange

• Old World

• Colony

The characteristic features of everyday life shared by people in a particular place or time

• Mestizo

• Columbian Exchange

• Culture

• Slavery

A person having mixed European and American ancestors

• Conquistadors

• Native

• Mestizo

• Culture

The state of a person who is forced usually under threat of violence to labor for the profit of another

• Columbian Exchange

• Culture

• Slavery

• Colony

The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Old World and the New World of the Americas

• Columbian Exchange

• Explore

• Culture

• Slavery

To go into or travel over for purposes of discovery or adventure

• New World

• Colony

• Conquistador

• Explore

The western hemisphere; especially the continental landmass of North America and South America

• Old World

• New World

• Columbian Exchange

• Native