5th Social Studies Chapter 4
Terms
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- a record, usually of a voyage or experiment
- log
- Italian captain who wanted to find a sea route to the Indies. He first reached the Bahama islands (Americas) in 1492.
- Christopher Columbus
- They gave Columbus money for his expedition.
- King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella
- An explorer who realized the land where Columbus landed was not part of Asia. Europeans then began calling the lands America.
- Amerigo Vespucci
- a settlement far away from the country that it rules
- colony
- the movement of people, plants, animals, and germs across the Atlantic Ocean following the voyages of Columbus
- Columbian exchange
- Aztec Emporer defeated by Hernando Cortes in 1520.
- Moctezuma II
- forced payment, usually made in the form of valuable goods
- tribute
- any Spanish conqueror who first came to the Americas in the 1500s
- conquistodor
- Indian (also called Malinche) who aided Hernando Cortes in his conquest of Tenochtitlan in 1521.
- Dona Marina (a.k.a. Malinche)
- Spanish conquistador who defeated the Inca in 1533
- Francisco Pizarro
- Last ruler of the vast Inca Empire who was captured and killed by the Spaniards.
- Atahualpa
- African whose story of the "Seven Cities of Gold" led Francisco de Coronado to explore the Southwest in 1540.
- Estevanico
- Spanish priest who told the stories about the Seven Cities of Gold
- Fray Marcos de Niza
- Spanish explorer who explored the southwest from 1540 to 1542
- Francisco Coronado
- Catholic priest who defended Indian rights
- Bartolome de las Casas
- a person who teaches his or her religion to people of different beliefs
- missionary
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capital and largest city of El Salvador
(believed to be the site of Columbus's first landing in North America in 1492) - San Salvador
- the capital of the ancient Aztec Empire on the site of present-day Mexico City
- Tenochtitlan
- conquistador who defeated the Aztec in 1521
- Hernando Cortez
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Now Mexico.
Conquistadors declared what is now Mexico a colony of Spain and called it _______________. - New Spain
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Spanish soldiers headed southeast to the __________ ___________ to find Mayan treasurers.
(Mayans fought off Spanish conquistadors for 20 years here.) - Yucatan Penisula
- Inca capital
- Cusco
- a very large piece of land in New Spain given by the Spanish government to certain Spanish colonists during the 1500's
- encomienda
- stories of a Fountain of Youth led him to explore Florida
- Ponce de Leon
- he traveled across Central America to become the first European to see the Pacific Ocean
- Balboa
- he explored the American Southeast, and was the first to see the Mississippi River
- de Soto
- he was shipwrecked in the Gulf of Mexico and he became the first Spaniard to explore Texas
- Cabeza de Vaca
- a chain of islands in the West Indies southeast of Florida
- Bahamas
- shows information about the past or past events
- historical map
- a guide that shows what each symbol on a map stands for
- map key
- a leader of a slave revolt in New Spain in 1609
- Yanga