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Chapter 2 Vocabulary
Chapter 2 - Europe Looks Outward
Word, term, or person | Definition |
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myth | traditional story |
negative | opposite to something positive |
factor | important element |
rigid | not bending |
restore | to give back something taken away |
province | territorial district of a country |
decline | to lessen in force, health, strength, or value |
motive | innner drive that causes a person to do something |
Christopher Columbus | Sailed for Spain to the Caribbean |
Vasco de Balboa | Sighted the Pacific Ocean |
Ferdinand Magellan | Led expedition to find an Atlantic-Pacific passage |
strait | narrow passage that connects two large bodies of water |
circumnavigate | travel around |
conquistadors | soldier adventurers |
Hernando Cortes | conquered the Aztecs |
Moctezuma | Aztec leader |
plantations | large farms worked by laborers who lived on the property |
encomiendas | land grants that included the right to demand labor or taxes |
Bartolome de Las Casas | Spanish priest who sought reform |
missions | religious settlements |
peninsulares | Spanish colonists who had been born in Spain |
mercantilism | belief that colonies existed to make the home country powerful and wealthy |
northwest passage | sea route from the Atlantic to the Pacific that passed through or around North America |
Henry Hudson | English explorer who searched for the Northwest Passage |
Samuel de Champlain | French explorer who founded New France (Canada) |
coureurs de bois | runners of the wood - independent traders who lived with the Indians |
Jacques Marquette | French missionary/explorer |
alliance | agreement between parties that benefits both |