Unit 3: Spanish Colonization, Aztec Civi, Olmec & Maya Cul

Spanish explorers who conquered territory

• privatized

• economists

• conquistador

• mestizo

a grant from the Spanish government giving colonists the right to demand labor from American Indians

• privatized

• Columbia Exchange

• encomienda

• investor

European people born in Spain

• rigid

• peninsular

• aqueduct

• economists

American-born descendants of Spanish settlers

• observatory

• Columbia Exchange

• quetzal

• creole

people of mixed American Indian and European descent

• investor

• basin

• mestizo

• Columbia Exchange

the exchange of people, other living things, and ideas between two hemispheres

• agriculture

• investor

• encomienda

• Columbia Exchange

bowl-shaped area

• basin

• observatory

• chinampa

• rigid

artificial islands

• chinampa

• wealth

• Columbia Exchange

• economists

canals or pipes that carry fresh water

• chinampa

• encomienda

• aqueduct

• conquistador

fixed or unchanging

• rigid

• slash-and-burn

• privatized

• observatory