S.S. Ch. 3 study Guide
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- Juan Ponce de Laon
- traveled in Florida searching for the fountain of youth
- mission
- religious settlements run by catholic priests and friars
- Christopher Columbus
- Credited for finding America's, Explorer from Spain
- How did the Conquistadors defeat twho indian empires?
- The conquistadors had a superior military, they also had spread disesase weakening the indians even more, and the indians were also weak from fighting
- Encomienda
- land grants that included the right to demand taxes and labor from native Americans
- Pueblo
- town
- Hernando Cortes
- sailed to Mexico in search of gold
- Peter Minuit
- led dutch settlers to mouth of the Hudson River, bought Manhattan island from Indians
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- priest seeking reform traveling through spain
- Samuel de Champlain
- founded Port Royal, led settlers high above St. Lawrence River built and made Quebec
- Leif Ericson
- Viking Explorer, Might have founded Americas
- Alliance
- an agreement between nations to and and protect one another
- Coureur de Bois
- french colonist who lived and worked in the woods
- Columbian Exchange
- started w/ voyages of columbus
- Northwest passage
- waterway through or around North America
- Explain why Europena powers wanted to find a new route to Asia
- they wanted to find the riches of asia w/ a shorter northwest passage
- What was Columbus's Impact?
- He spread European diseases to America's, Made Europe aware of the America's, Made the first spanish colony in America's, his Voyage started the Columbian Exchange
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Circumnavigated the world
- Colony
- a group of people who settle in a distant land but are still ruled by government of their land
- Vasco Nunez Balboa
- explorer, landed in panama
- presido
- fort where soldiers lived
- mestizo
- mixed Spanish and Indian background
- circumnavigate
- to sail completely around
- Plantation
- large estate farmed by many workers
- Explain how spain settled its colonies
- The king set up a strong system of government to rule and divided the americas to new spain and peru. A code named the laws of the indies told how all the colonies should be orgonized and ruled
- Name the areas spanish explored
- North America, South America, Central America, Africa
- Conquistador
- conquerors
- Marquette and Joliet
- French Missionaries and fur traders, set out to reach Mississippi river and led by indians
- How did spanish explorers find a route across the Pacific Ocean?
- native americans told balboa of a body of water west of the panama so balboa reached the Pacific Ocean and claimed it for spain. Then Magellen sailed across it.
- Turning Point
- a moment in history that marks a decisive change
- Ferdinand and Isabella
- king and queen of Spain at the time, "sponsored" Columbus's trip
- How did exploration set off global exchange of goods and services?
- Columbus went to americas and told spain about them, then all these other explorers from Europe went back and forth exchanging their goods w/ Native Americans
- peninsulare
- born in Spain, hold highest jobs in government and church
- John Cabot
- had reached "new found island: and explored North America
- Francisco Pizarro
- sailed pacific coast of South America
- Moctezuma
- Emperor of Tenochtitlan
- summarize whoat life was like for native americans under spanish rule
- The spanish forced the native americans to work in the mines, life was poor for the Native Americans
- Jacques Cartier
- Sailed for the French, sailed the St. Lawrence River