6A & 6B Vocabulary
Martha Flores 3 Period
Mesoamerica
The are extending approximately from Central Mexico to Honduras & Nicaragua in which diverse Pre-Columbian civilizations flourished.
Elite
The choice or best of anything considered collectively as of a group or class of persons
Musket
A heavy, large-caliber smooth bore gun for inanity soldiers, introduced in the16th century: the predecessor of the modern life
Decimate
to destroy a great number of proportion of people
Intermarriage
marriage between people of different races, religions, tribes, caste or ethnic groups, as between a white & black
Encomienda System
Was a legal system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the Spanish colonization of the Americas to regulate Native America labor and autonomy
Columbian Exchange
The exchange of European products, ideas & diseases to the Americas & vice versa
Staples
A principal raw material or commodity grown or manufactured in a locality
Dispersal
To drive off or send off in a various directions
Diaspora
is a scattered population with a common origin in a smaller geographic area.
Cash Crops
a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower