chapter 2 history
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- presidios
- military bases
- Leif Erikkson
- Viking who went to the Labrador Peninsula in present-day Canada
- Slaves
- Africans who worked in the colonies in the New World as part of the Europeans trade
- astrolabe
- a device that enabled navigation to learn their ships location by charting the location of the stars
- Francisco Pizarro
- conquistador who heard rumors of the Incas cities in the Andes of South America
- wrote books
- What did Bartolome de las Casas do to help encourage better treatment of the N.Americans?
- Printing Press
- a machine that produces printed copies using movable type
- Magellan
- who did not get involved with the race for the Northwest Passage?
- immune
- having a natural resistance
- caravels
- triangular sails that allowed ships to sail against the wind
- African Diaspora
- enslaved African were sent all over the New World
- a smaller, faster English fleet defeated the Armada in a huge battle
- Why was the Spanish Crown surprised when the Spanish Armada was defeated by the English?
- encomienda
- system that gave settlers the right to tax local Native Americas or make them work
- their close trading relationships
- Why did the French treat the N.Americans with more respect than the other Europeans?
- Treaty of Tordesillas
- a document that moved the Line of Demarcation 800 miles west, this worked in favor of Portuguese
- Malintzin
- Indian chic who helped Cortez win allies
- Quebec
- where France built its first North Americans settlements
- conquistadors
- soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas
- The Middle Passage
- the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure
- Henry the Navigator
- founded a school of navigation to teach better methods of sailing
- The Columbian Exchange
- an exchange of plants, animals, and diseases the Americas, Europe, Asia, and Africa
- Line of Demarcation
- the imaginary line that divided the Atlantic Ocean, it said that spain got all land west of the line
- Dagama
- a Portuguese navigator, set out with a fleet to reach the Philippine Islands and the Indian Ocean
- plantations
- large farms that grew just one kind of crop
- Deaze
- in 1501 he led a Spanish fleet to the coast of present-day South America
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- priest who tried to convert the N.Americans to Christianity
- Protestant Reformation
- a religious movement against the Catholic Church
- Louisiana
- To honor King Louis XIV of France what did La Salle name the Mississippi Valley?
- Circumnavigate
- to go all the way around the globe
- Tenochtitlan
- Aztecs capital built on an island in the middle of the lake
- Christopher Columbus
- sailor from Genoa, Italy was convinced he could reach Asia by sailing west across the Atlantic Ocean
- Hugenots
- what the French protestants were called
- Jacques Cartier
- a French sailor who led France's exploration of North America, he went to Canada twice
- Ferdinand Magellan
- Portuguese navigator who set out with a Spanish fleet to sail down down the east coast of South America
- protestants
- reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church's practices
- The Spanish Armada
- a huge fleet pf Spanish warships meant to end the English plans
- charter
- a document giving permission to colonize
- Hernan Cortez
- conquistador who left Cuba to sail to present-day Mexico in 1519
- Martin Luther
- in 1517 he was a German priest who publicly criticized the Roman Catholic Church
- Moctezuma II
- ruler of the Aztec empire
- sea dogs
- the name given to English sailors who raided Spanish treasure ships
- The Northwest Passage
- a water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific
- King Ferdinand and Queen Elizabeth of Spain
- the two people Christopher Columbus asked to pay for his expedition across the Atlantic