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history unit 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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! |
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