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history chapter 2
History chap 2 quiz for test
Term | Definition |
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Iberian Peninsula | Spain and Portugal |
quadrant | let sailors know their location/latitude |
compass | show the direction yo are traveling |
small triangular sail | help sailors travel into the wind |
square sail | gave ship its power |
Latitude | measure distance from the equator |
caravans | brought goods to the middle east |
tacking | zig zag motion into the wind |
DaGama | reaching India after sailing for a year |
Prince Henry | worked to help his nation become skilled at exploration |
Columbus | thought he could sail west across the Atlantic Ocean to reach Asia |
Dias | explored the coast of Africa for Portugal |
Queen Isabella | paid for Columbus's voyage |
October 12, 1492 | Columbus set foot on the Americas |
Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria | 3 ships Columbus used to sail to the new world |
Pope | declared Indians humans with souls |
Las Casas | thought treating the Indians poorly was wrong, became a monk to write about their mistreatment. Came back to America as a bishop |
Columbus | thought Indians could be forced to become Christians and made good slaves |
Spanish | thought Indians should be catholics or slaves, and that they were free to conquer the indians |
New France | the explorers found good fishing ground near Newfoundland |
New Netherlands | the capital was New Amsterdam |
Roanoke | Humphrey Gilbert and Walter Raleigh warned their country's leaders that Spain was becoming too powerful |
New Netherlands | Peter Minuit was the governor and bought the use of Manhattan Island form the Indians |
New France | the name of the trading town was Quebec |
Roanoke | Goal was to bring wealth and power to their country and give the gospel to the Indians |
Roanoke | they all disappeared |
New Netherlands | Peter Stuyvesant wanted the colony to be godly |
New France | Samuel de Champlain made an agreement with the Iroquois and Hurons |
small triangular sail | allows ships to sail into the wind |
compass | allows the sailors to know what direction they are going |
quadrant | helps calculate the angle of the sun |
Columbus | set foot on American in 1492 |
Da Gama | wanted to be the first to sail from Europe to India |
Dias | explored the coast of Africa for Portugal |
Las Casas | became a monk and wrote about the mistreatment of Indians |
Prince Henry | helped Portugal become skilled at exploration |
the pope | declared Indians to be humans with souls |
Canary Islands | where columbus went after sailing along the coast of Africa |
Jamestown | choose a poor spot to build their colony, and would not work |
Captain John Smith | forced out of the colony |
Powhatan | leader of the Indians tribe, where the people of Jamestown settled |
Separatist | group of people who separated from the Church of England and started their own church |
Puritans | a group of people who wanted to purify the church by removing false teachings |
Charles the first | determined to put an end to puritanism |
Salem | the first town the Puritans started |
John Winthrop | leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony |
indentured servants | people who agreed to work for a certain amount of time to pay off a debt |
Powhatan | chief of several woodland indian tribes in the Chesapeake Bay area |
Puritans | wanted to purify the church by removing false teachings |
Separatist | Did not think the church of england would change, started their own church according to God's word |
John Smith | captain who made the colonists at Jamestown work |
John Winthrop | first governor of Massachusetts Bay colony who wanted a community of Christian love |
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