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GLOSSARY









                             aboriginal                            Jesuit


                             the first or earliest known           a group of priests of the Roman
                             people in a region                    Catholic Society of Jesus


                             bartering                             missionaries

                             exchanging one thing for              religious people who travel to

                             another without using money           distant places to spread their
                                                                   religious beliefs
                             decimated

                             destroyed a large part of             pelts

                                                                   animal skins with or without the
                             evangelism                            hair, wool, or fur attached

                             the practice of influencing

                             people to accept the beliefs          scurvy
                             of Christianity                       a disease caused by a lack of
                                                                   vitamin C
                             immunity

                             resistance to disease





























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