Colonization

5. signed in 1215, a British document that contained two basic ideas: monarchs themselves have to obey the laws, and citizens have basic rights
8. forts where soldiers lived in New Spain
9. towns in New Spain
11. movement to reform the Catholic Church in the 1500s; led to the creation of many different Christian Churches, these religious differences increased rivalries between nations
12. religious settlements run by Catholic priests and friars
13. land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes from Native Americans
14. representative assembly in England
15. large estate farmed by many workers
16. French colonists who lived and worked in the woods
17. a group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by the government of their native land
19. an agreement between nations to aid and protect one another
21. representatives to the government

1. a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
2. spanish conquerors
3. top social class of New Spain, people who were born in Spain and held the highest jobs in government and the Church.
4. below the creoles, they were people who were of mixed Spanish and Indian background in New Spain
6. Indian empire conquered by the Spanish, many of them died from European diseases
7. to sail completely around the world
10. the global exchange of goods and ideas resulting from the encounter between the peoples of the Eastern and Western hemisphere
18. below the Peninsulares, they were people who were born in New Spain to Spanish parents
20. passage waterway through or around North America; European nations sent explorers in search of this passage to find a direct water route to Asia, this led to more European nations making use of North American resources