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Chapter 5 Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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It is the site of the first Spanish colony in the Americas . | What is the significance of Hispaniola ? |
Spain . | Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand were the rulers of ______ . |
The Earth was round .He could reach Asia by sailing West from Europe. He had landed in the Indies . | Christopher Columbus believed that _____ . |
A journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite purpose . | Which of the following best describes an expedition ? |
It was the first place claimed for and controlled by a distant government . | Why was Santo Domingo considered the first permanent colony in the Americas ? |
Narávez . | _______ granted the land of Florida by the king of Spain; drowned at sea while attempting to reach Mexico . |
Cortéz . | ______ founded the city of Veracruz; seized the city of Tenochtitlán . |
Conquistador . | ______ is a general term for a Spanish explorer who searched for wealth in the Americas . |
Viceroy . | ______ is a governor of a colony who rules in the name of the king . |
Pueblo . | ______ is a Native American village of houses built of adobe . |
Coronado . | ______ explored areas of present-day New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas in his search of Cibola . |
Friar . | ______ is a person belonging to one of the religious brotherhoods of the Roman Catholic Church . |
Missionary . | _____ is one who is sent to do religious or charitable work in a territory or foreign country . |
Commission . | _________ is to grant the power of authority to carry out a specific task . |
Cabeza de Vaca . | _______________ is one of four survivors of the Narávez expedition; returned to Mexico and then to Spain and talked of the seven cities of gold . |
De Soto . | ________ explored parts of the Southeast in his search for Cibola reached the Mississippi River . |
Mission . | A settlement founded to spread Christianity to the people of the area . |