Chapter 2 Part 2 11–7-23

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