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| the form of political society that combines centralized government with a high degree of ethnic and culture unity. |
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| a person of mixed Native American and European ancestary. |
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| an alliance or league of nations of peoples looser than a federation. |
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| small vessel with a high deck and three triangular sails. |
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| a large-scale agricultural enterprise growing commercial crops and usually employing coerced or slave labor. |
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| spanish conqueror or adventurer in the Americas. |
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| an economic system characterized by private property, generally free trade and oepn and accessible markets. |
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| the Spanish labor system in which persons were held to unpaid service under the permanent control of their masters, though not legally owned by them. |
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| a medium-sized subunit of territory and governmental administration within a larger nation or empire. |
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| feverent belief and loyalty given to the political unit of the nation-state. |
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| the legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land. |
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| the legal principle that the oldest son inherits all family property or land. |
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| an economic arrangement by which a number of investors pool their capital for investment. |
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| a legal document granted by a gov't to some group or agency to implement a started prupose and spelling out the attending rights and obligations. |
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| an official count of population, often also including other information about the population. |
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| concernign the decentralized medieval social system of personal obligations between rulers and ruled. |
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| a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportatioin, protection, or training. |
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| originally, religious freedom granted by an established church to a religious minority. |
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| a frontier farmer who illegally occupied land owned by others or not yet officially opened for settlement. |
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| in politics, a small territory or stat between two larger, antagonistic powers and intended to minimize the possibility of conflice between them. |
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