viz civics ch. 2
this is the study guide 4 viz girls in 8th grade civics
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- Line of Demarcation
- This is the line in between Spain and Portugal
- Roanoke colony
- In this Brittish colony these people had a hard life. They fought with the native americans and had trouble finding and growing food.
- Spanish Armada Battle
- a huge fleet of warships meant to end the English plans
- European diseases
- These diseases came from Europe and spread to the AmericanIndians
- African Slave Trade
- This trade devastated African communities, led to increased warfare among kingdoms, and broke up many families.
- Bartolomé de Las Casas
- This priest wanted the Indians to be treated better and to try to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
- Marco Polo
- wrote a book in 1300 inspiring interest in Asia
- Leif Eriksson
- This person and the vikings tried to sail from Norway to Greenland but strong winds blew his ship off course and carried his ship all the way to the North American coast
- Indians did not have
- Metal tools, gunpowder, horses, the wheel are all things that the...
- Columbian Exchange
- The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa.
- Printing Press
- helped spread the ideas of the Reformation by printing large numbers of Bibles as ell as short says explaining their ideas.
- Canada
- The center of the New World.
- Ferdinand and Isabella
- This king and queen paid for the expenses of Columbus' journey
- Aztecs of Mexico
- At first this empire had a ruler named Moctezuma II who was taken prisoner by Hernán Cortés. Eventually, Tenochtitlán was destroyed and Moctezuma was killed. Smallpox and other diseases quickened the fall of this empire.
- Ferdinand Magellan
- a Portuguese navigator
- Robert de La Salle
- This person followed th eMississippi River to the Gulf of Mexico and claimed the Mississippi Valley for King Louis XIV of France
- Pizzaro
- This conquistador heard rumors of the Inca cities in theAndes of South America and captured the great Inca capital and killed the Inca leaders.
- Northwest Passage
- A water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atantic to the Pacific
- Charter for British Colonies
- A document giving him permission to start a colony.
- Columbus' First Voyage
- This voyage sailed through uncharted seas and thought he was in Asia but he was really in the Bahamas.
- Astrolabe
- a device that enabled navigators to learn their ship's location by charting the position of the stars.
- Fench fur trade
- French got along with the Indians because they had a trade going called the...
- Caravel
- Ship only used sails and no oars.
- routes to Asia
- The Europeans wanted to find land and sea routes to this place because they had heard stories of fabulous kingoms and wealth.
- Hernán Cortés
- This conquistador left Cuba to sail to present=day Mexico in 1519.
- Vasco da Gama
- This person was the first explorer to find a sea route from Europe to Asia
- Christopher Columbus
- Who took a voyage because he was convinced that he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean
- Spain
- The Most wealthy and powerful nation of the world in 1500's because of gold and products from the New World