click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
chapter 5 vocab
Term | Definition |
---|---|
What is the significance of hispaniola | it is the site of the first Spanish colony the Americans. |
Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand | Spain |
Christopher Columbus believed that | the earth was round, he could reach Asia by sailing west from Europe, and he had landed in the Indies. |
Which of the following best describes an expedition ? | a journey undertaken by a group of people with a definite purpose. |
Why is Santa Domingo considered the first permanent colony in the America | it was the first place claimed for and controlled by a distant goverment |
who was granted the land of Florida by the king of Spain drowned at sea while attempting to reach Mexico? | Narvaes |
founded the city of veracruz siezed the city of tebic and renamed city of Mexico | Cortez |
General term for a Spanish explorer who searched fro wealth and land in the americas | conquistador |
governor of a colony who rules in the name of the king | viceroy |
Native Americans villege of houses built of adobe | pueblo |
explored ares of present day New Mexico, Texas, and Kansas in his search for Cibola | Coronodo |
person belonging to one of the reliogous brotherhoods of the Roman Catholic Church | friar |
one who is doing religous work | missionary |
to garnt the power to do something | commision |
one of the survirers of Narvaez | Cabeza De Vaca |
a settlement founded to spread Chritanity to the people of area | mission |