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Conquistador
A Spanish explorer in the Americas in the 1500s
Plantation
A large estate run by an owner or manager and harmed by laborers who lived there
Pueblo
Home or community of homes built by native Americans
Tribute
Money paid for protection
Mission
Religious settlement
Presidio
Spanish fort in the Americas built to protect mission settlements
Encomienda
System of rewarding conquistadors with tracts of land and the right to tax and demand labor from native Americans who lived on the land
Mercantilism
The theory that a state's or nation's power depends on its wealth
Northwest Passage
Water route to Asia through North America sought by European explorers
Colombian Exchange
Exchange of goods, ideas, and people between Europe and the Americas
Coureur de Bois
French trapper living among Native Americans