Vocabulary
The state or quality of being resistant to a particular infectious disease
Immunity
Sailed the ocean blue in 1492
Christopher Columbus
Drawn by Pope Alexander VI in 1493 to separate the occupied lands for trade in South America
Line of Demarcation
An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit.
Capitalism
Large plantations where natives worked
Encomienda
Spanish leaders who funded Columbus' travels to the Americas
Ferdinand & Isabella
Country that Isolated themselves in 1500-1600's, and killed or imprisoned any washed up merchants
Korea
Conquerors from Spain that traveled to the Americas looking for gold and resources
Conquistadors
American born descendants of Spanish settlers
Creoles
Explorer whose crew circumnavigated the Earth. He died in the Philippines
Ferdinand Magellan
Country that initially accepted trade and missionaries in the 1500's, but reverted to isolation by 1638. Allowed one or two Dutch trading ships a year
Japan
Process of adopting culture, values, and behavior of the lands in the west like the Americas. Peter and Catherine the Great had this as a goal
Westernization
Dutch Colonists
Boers
Spanish explorer who arrived in Mexico and defeated the Aztecs
Hernan Cortes
This treaty gave Portugal control of Brazil in 1494
Treaty of Tordasillas
Government in which the leader centralizes their power and has complete control over the government and it's people. Phillip II, Louis XIV, Peter and Catherine the Great practiced this
Absolute Monarchy