The Western Experience, 10th Edition (Chambers)

Chapter 14: Economic Expansion and a New Politics

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Treaty of Tordesillas
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conquistador
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Parliament
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Estates
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Cortes
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New World
A)Name given to the Americas by sixteenthcentury explorers and settlers.
B)The legislatures of the Spanish kingdoms— Aragon, Castile, and Navarre—which were made up of representatives of the Church, the aristocracy, and towns.
C)English legislature, consisting of a House of Lords whose members were nobles and bishops, and a House of Commons whose members were elected gentry and townsmen.
D)In a number of countries in Europe, representative assemblies that were composed of three houses of representatives: the clergy, the nobility, and townsmen.
E)A Spanish minor nobleman who led his country's expeditions of conquest into Central and South America in the sixteenth century.
F)The chief law courts in the regions of France; the members, who owned their offices, claimed the right to approve royal legislation for their regions, and sometimes clashed with the king.
G)Signed in 1494, the treaty confirmed the pope's division of the world between the Portuguese and Spanish for exploration and conquest. Under its terms, a line was drawn some 1,200 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands, with Portugal granted all lands to the west and Spain granted all lands to the east.
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