Chapter 16 European Expansion
Terms
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- Vasco da Gama
- Portugese navigator who in 1498 sailed from Europe around Africa to Asia.
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Portugese explorer in the service of Spain; he set out to find a route to Asia by sailing around the southern tip of South America.
- Atahualpa
- The last Inca emperor captured and killed by Francisco Pizarro.
- credibility
- believability
- Bartholomeu Dias
- Portugese ship captain whos voyage around the southern tip of Africa in 1487 led to the opening of a sea route between Europe and Asia.
- convert
- to adopt or cause someone to adopt a new religion.
- Hispaniola
- a Caribbean island settled by Spaniards in 1493; a present day island that is divided into the Dominican Republic and Haiti.
- Hernando Cortes
- Spanish conquistador who defeated the Aztec in 1521.
- Strait of Magellan
- a narrow waterway at the southern tip of South America, linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
- caravel
- a sailing ship developed in Portugal in the 1400s that had greater dirrectional control than earlier ships and could dail greater distances more safely.
- missionary
- a person who teaches his or her religion to people with different beliefs.
- Prince Henry
- Portugese prince who directed the search for a sea route to the gold mines of western Africa. He also designed a fast, steerable ship known as a caravel.
- Line of Demarcation
- an imaginary line drawn across North and South America in 1494 to divide the claims of Spain and Portugal.
- hacienda
- a large agricultural estate owned by Spaniards or the church in Spain's American colonies.
- Pedro Alvares Cabral
- Portugese navigator who landed on the coast of Brazil in 1500 and claimed it for Portugal.
- Francisco Pizarro
- Spanish connquistador who in 1532 defeated the Inca emperor Atahualpa.
- Christopher Columbus
- Italian explorer in the service of Spain who arived in the Americas in 1492.
- conquistador
- a soanish explorer who came to the Americas to search for gold, land, and glory.
- Moctezuma
- Aztec emperor defeated and killed by the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes.
- strait
- a narrow channel or body of water connecting two larger bodies of water.