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Cms 8th ss ch3
Chamberlain Middle School 8th grade SS Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| conquistadores | Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish conquistadore who conquered the Aztecs |
| Moctezuma II | Aztec King who was eventually killed by the spanish |
| Malintzin | She helped Cortez speak with native americans and advised him about the Aztecs |
| Franscisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas |
| Atahualpa | Inca ruler who gave Pizarro tons of gold but was still killed by him |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | Spanish conquistador who was given the right ot settle in North America and went to Florida in search for the fountain of youth |
| Alavar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | Split his forces(which turned out to be a mistake) to explore Florida. |
| Hernando de Soto | He became the first European to cross the Mississippi River. |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coronado | Went in search of a golden city in which he never found. Captured the Zuni town called Cibola. |
| Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo | Sailed along the coast of present day California |
| pueblos | spanish towns in America |
| missions | settlements established by priest in spanish america to convert local indians to catholicism |
| presidios | Spanish military bases located in America |
| encomienda system | gave spanish settlers the right to tax and make local indians work for them |
| plantations | large farms that usually specialize in growing one kind of crop |
| borderlands | The northern most part of the spanish settelments |
| Council of the Indies | Spainish royal officals who wrote laws, selected officials and judged legal cases in the Americas |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | He defended the American Indian Rights and called for an end to the encomienda system |
| Juan de Onate | He helped start the first colony in New Mexico called Santa Fe |
| Pope | A pueblo medicine man who drove the spanish out of New Mexico, but the spanish regained control 12 years later |
| El Camino Real | The Royal Road it connected hundreds of miles of trails over Spanish lands |
| sea dogs | English sailors who attacked Spanish treasure ships |
| inflation | The rise of the amount of money in use which leads to higher prices |
| Martin Luther | Former Catholic priest whose disagreements with the church made him split from it and start his own church which became known as Luthern |
| Protestant Reformation | Religious movement that protested the Catholic Church to try to change it |
| Protestants | People who protested the Catholic Church and started their own Churches |
| Henry VIII | King of England who split with the Catholic church and created the Anglican Church or the Church of England and made himself the head of the Church |
| Philip II | Spanish King who lead the Catholic Reformation against the Protestant movement. |
| Elizabeth I | Henry VIII daughter who fights against the Spanish and encourages her troops to victory against the Spanish Armada which paves the way for Great Britain to become the most powerful country in the world |
| Francis Drake | Most successful sea dog be lead the first English crew around the world |
| Spanish Armada | Huge fleet of Spanish Warships |
| charter | document giving royal permission to start a colony |
| Rene-Robert de La Salle | Frenchman who traveled down the Mississippi River and Claimed New Orleans for the French King and Named the large amount of land he claimed Louisiana in Honor of King Louis XIV |
| Peter Minuit | Bought Manhatten Island from the Native Americans for about 24 dollars. Some say he tricked them |
| Walter Raleigh | Set up the first English Colony in the New World the first of which mysteriously disappeared. He named the land Virginia and claimed it for England. |
| Which two explorers gave France a claim to much of Canada? | Jacques Cartier and Samuel de Champlain |
| Protestants objected to | the great power held by the pope and the complex rituals of the Catholic Church |
| Sir Francis Drake was a famous | sea dog captain |
| Pizarro was able to conquer the Inca because | the Inca had been weakened by smallpox epidemics and civil war |
| The Spanish explorer who traveled as far as present-day Kansas in search of the Seven Cities of Cibola | Vasquez de Coronado |
| Junipero Serra was head of the Spanish Missionary movement in | California |
| The three types of Spanish settlements were | pueblos, missions and presidios |
| Who wrote the paper criticizing the Catholic Church and helped motivate the Protestant Reformation? | Martin Luther |
| Malintzin, or Malinche wsa | An indian woman who served as a guide and interpreter to Cortes |
| What city became the center of the French fur trade? | Montreal |
| Moctezuma's gifts of gold and other valuables kept Cortes away from the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan | False |
| Throughout New Spain, many settlers depended on American Indian labor | True |
| King Henry VIII founded and became the head of the Anglican church in 1534 | True . |
| The Spanish Armada defeated the English navy in July 1588 | False . |
| Unlike the Spanish, French settlers were allies with several American Indian groups | True .. |
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