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history unit 2
Question | Answer |
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Columbian Exchange | the transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the americas, europe, asia, and africa |
Sea Dogs | a sailor especially an experienced one |
Conquestidor | a spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the americas and captured land for spain |
Encomienda system | a system in spanish america that gave settlers the right to tax local indians or to and converting them to christianity |
Plantation | a large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit |
Protestant Reformation | a religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the catholic church |
Spanish Armada | a large spanish fleet defeated by england in 1588 |
Northwest Passage | a nonexistant path through north america that early explorers searhed for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean |
Charter | an official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony |
Tenochtitlan | Moctezuma's capital |
Viceroy | a person appointed to rule a country or province as the deputy of the sovereign: the viceroy of India. |
Aztecs | a member of a Nahuatl-speaking state in central Mexico that was conquered by Cortés in 1521. |
Incas | a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest. |
Emigrants | are people who leave one place and go to another place |
Hernan Cortes | a person who went and took over the aztec tribe he took very big advantage of them he is Spanish |
Francisco Pizzaro | He is Spanish he killed the inca tribe and their leaders and captured the rest |
Ponce De Leon | He is Spanish he was the first to set foot on the uninted states of America He also looked for the fountain of youth |
Hernando De Soto | Discovered the Mississippi River |
Cabeza De Vaca and Estevanico | He traveled along the colorado river. |
Francisco Coronado | Spanish conquistador found the grand cannon |
John Cabot | He found newfoudland and Canada |
jacques Cartier | He sailed the Lawrence river and went to montreal canada. |
Henry Hudson 1st voyage | Tried to find the north west passage |
Samuel de Champlain | He found and founded present day Quebec |
Marquette and Joliet | They sailed down the mississippi river |
Rene Robert de La Salle | Claimed the valley for france |
Peter Minuit | Bought the island of Manhattan for $24! |