chapter 2 vocabulary
vocabulary terms for chapter 2
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- Moctezuma II
- King of Aztecs
- Francisco Pizzaro
- Spanish conquistador who conquered the Inca's
- encominenda system
- gave Spanish settlers the right to tax Native Americans in the New World
- Henry the Navigator
- Prince who started a navigation school in Portugal to teach sea faring skills
- caravels
- triangular sails that allowed ships to sail against the wind
- Middle Passage
- voyage across the Atlantic Ocean for Africans to North America
- circumnavigate
- sail around the world
- Hernan Cortes
- Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs
- immune
- natural resistance to disease
- Spanish Armada
- Spanish fleet of naval ships that lost to the English
- Treaty of Tordestillas
- decree issued by leaders of Spain and Portugal that moved the line of demarcation 800 miles to the west, favored Portugal
- Northwest Passage
- route from Europe to the west that was believed to be a direct route to Asia - did not exist
- charter
- document that gave a country the right to start a colony
- astrolabe
- instrument that navigated sea voyages using stars and astronomy
- Columbian Exchange
- the movement of trade, goods, animals, plants, diseases between the New World and the Old World
- Line of Demarcation
- imaginary line drawn to divide Atlantic Ocean between Portugal and Spain for future exploration claims
- Bartolome de la Casas
- Spanish priest who sought non violence and kindness towards Native Americans
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Portuguese explorer, first to sail around the world (circumnavigate)
- conquistadors
- spanish warriors who claimed lands for Span
- Leif Erikson
- son of Erik the Red, Viking who explored North America
- African Diaspora
- scattering of Africans across the world
- Protestants
- people who protested the teachings of the Catholic Church and sought reform
- Jacques Cartier
- French sailor who led France to major explorations in North America
- Protestant Reformation
- movement that divided the Catholic Church and began the Protestant faith
- Christopher Columbus
- explorer who sailed for Spain, four voyages, sailed west in the hopes of reaching Asia
- plantations
- large farms that grew one crop