Chapter 1 vocab
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- Caravel
- sailing ship capable of long-distance exploration
- Astrolabe
- device used to determine direction, latitude, and local time
- Colombian Exchange
- series of complex societal and environmental interactions between the Americas and Europe begun with Columbu's first voyage
- Amerigo Vespucci
- attempted to sail west to Asia like Columbus and ended up discovering America
- Slash and Burn agriculture
- farming technique in which land is cleared and made fertile by cutting down and burning forests
- Longhouses
- large, rectangular building with barrel-shaped roofs covered in bark used by some Native Americans
- Great Binding Law
- the constitution that defined how the confederacy works
- Iroquois League
- an alliance between the Seneca, the Cayuga, the Onondaga, Oneida, and Mohawk
- Henry the Navigator
- set up a center for astronomical and geographical studies at Sagres on Portugal's southwestern tip
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- this confirmed Portugal's right to control the route around Africa to India, and confirmed Spain's claim to the new lands of America
- Algonquian
- a major language spoken by the northeast peoples
- Vasco de Balboa
- the first European to reach the Pacific coast of America
- Lateen sails
- triangle-shaped sails that made it possible for ships to sail against the wind
- Manorial system
- the economic ties between nobles and peasants
- Wigwams
- conical or dome-shaped dwelling built by Native Americans using bent poles covered with hides or bark
- Juan Ponce de Leon
- he discovered Florida while trying to find the fountain of youth
- Serf
- person bound to a manor
- Iroquois
- the other people of the northeast who lived in longhouses and large towns
- Christopher Columbus
- a sailor who was interested in sailing west, sailed to America in 1492
- Feudalism
- political system in which powerful leaders gave land to nobles in exchange for pledges of loyalty and service
- Ferdinand Magellan
- the first person to ever circumnavigate the globe
- Line of Demarcation
- north-south line of longitude through the Atlantic Ocean dividing lands in the Americas claimed by Spain and Portugal