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Unit 7 vocabulary
From asia to migration in america
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History
10th Grade
05/28/2011

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Treaty of Tordesillas
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A treaty between spain and portugal in which they agreed to honor the imaginary line in the ocean.
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Dutch East India Company
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A trading company that had the ability to trade throughout asia. This company was more powerful than britains company.
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Ming Dynasty
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A dynasty in china throughout the time of 1368 to 1644. It made china a dominant power in Asia.
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Quing Dynasty
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A mongol dynasty under the control of the Manchus that would rule for more than 260 years and would expand chinas borders to include taiwan.
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Daimyo
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They were powerful samurai that would own a plot of landand would protect peasants as overlords.
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Tokugawa Shogunate
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Overlord daimyo that controlled large areas of land and were in feudal asia.
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Haiku
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A poem in the form of 5-7-5 syllables, and is a 3-lined poem.
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Kabuki
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A type of japanese theater that uses extravagant costumes and makeup.
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Colony
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A land that is controlled by another nation.
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Conquistador
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Spanish explorers that followed the spanish explorer Hernando Cortes
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Mestizo
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A person of mixed ancestory from Spanish and Native American.
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Encomienda
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A spanish owned farm that made Native Americans work as slave labor.
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New France
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Also known as Quebec, it was frances colonial empire in North America.
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Jamestown
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Jamestown was the first settlement in North America and was named in honor of their king.
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Pilgrims
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A group of settlers that settled in Plymouth while escaping from religious persecution.
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puritans
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A group that sought religious freedom from Englands anglican church and established a colony nearby Massachusetts Bay.
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New Netherlands
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Dutch Holdings in North America based on fur trade.
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French and Indian War
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A war between England and France when england started invading french holdings.
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Atlantic Slave Trade
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The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas.
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Triangular Trade
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Africans that were traded to the americas through a translantic trade route.
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Middle Passage
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The voyage that brought africans to the west indies and later to North and South America.
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