Social Studies - Unit 2 Glossary

A conquistador is

• a mix of mestizos and Spanish peoples

• a grant by the Spanish King under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted a piece of land or a village together with its Native American population

• a conqueror, especially of the 16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru

The Northwest Passage was

• the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

• a disease occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting a very high number of people

• a route by sea between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans along the northern coast of North America

A turning point is

• belief in many gods

• data about population characteristics

• a moment when the course of events is changed or a significant change occurs

Polytheism is

• belief in many gods.

• cannot be affected by a disease.

• a society where groups of people with different customs, beliefs, arts, and way of life live together.

Cultural diversity is

• a society where groups of people with different customs, beliefs, arts, and way of life live together.

• the beliefs, customs, arts, way of life, of a particular society, group, place, or time.

• a group sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, and way of life.

An encomienda is

• a mix of mestizos and Spanish peoples.

• a grant by the Spanish King under which a Spanish soldier or colonist was granted a piece of land or a village together with its Native American population.

• a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work.

Ladinos are

• people of mixed Native American and European, usually Spanish or Portuguese, ancestry.

• people already living in a particular region or environment before exploration by Europeans

• a mix of mestizos and Spanish peoples

To be "immune" means you

• can get carsick.

• cannot be affected by a disease.

• can get every disease you are exposed to.

The Middle Passage was

• the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

• a route by sea between the Atlantic and the Pacific oceans along the northern coast of North America.

• a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work.

A pandemic is

• a disease occurring over a wide geographic area and affecting a very high number of people

• North America, Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America.

• a group sharing a common and distinctive culture, religion, language, and way of life.