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Period 1 APUSH
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| encroachment | intrusion on territory or rights - the Spanish encroached on Native American's way of living and captured their land |
| translator | one who translates one language to another - women translators were seen as medians between cultures for the Native Americans and Spanish |
| encomienda system | Spanish slaver labor system using labor of non-Christian people - Spanish enslaves Natives that weren't converted |
| conquistadors | Spanish colonizers/conquerors in search of resources or riches - aimed to open trade routes and gather high quality items to give back to the mother country |
| nation-state | territory where one group living there share common history - native americans could technically be in nation-states |
| diseases | negative affect by pathogens or sickness - Spanish brought over diseases due to things that native americans didn't have, so they didn't develop natural "immunity" causes great dying |
| luxury items from Americas | included smoking tobacco and drinking chocolate |
| military technology from Spain | horses, metal armors and tools, guns |
| animism | giving soul to an object animating it - polytheistic Indigenous religions used objects given spirits or animal like gods |
| caste system | |
| hacienda system |