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SS Chpt 4 - 5th Grad
Spain Builds an Empire
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who explored for Spain seeking the West Indies with his three ships, the Nina, the Pinta and the Santa Maria in 1492. Discovered the Americas. |
| expedition | journey made for special purposes |
| King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella | Financed Columbus' journey to the Americas |
| Bahama Island | Historians believe that Columbus may have reached one of these islands. Became known as the West Indies. |
| colony | settlement far from the country that rules it |
| Columbian Exchange | movement of people, animals, plants, diseases and ways of life between the Eastern Hemisphere and the Western Hemisphere |
| Amerigo Vespucci | explorer/navigator, where the name "Americas" came from, first to call America the "new world." He was the first to realize that Amercica was a separate continent, not part of China. |
| latitude | distance north or south of the equator, measured in degrees |
| longitude | distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees |
| meridians | Imaginary line extending from the North Pole to the South Pole, also called longitude line |
| grid | Pattern of criss-crossing lines that can help you find locations on a map |
| prime meridian | Line of longitude marked 0 degrees. Other lines of longitude are measured in degrees east or west of the prime meridian |
| Moctezuma | Leader of the Aztecs when Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztec empire |
| Hernando Cortes | Spanish conquerer of the Aztec empire |
| conquistadors | Spanish word for conquerers who came to the Americas in the 1500s |
| ally | a friend who will help in a fight |
| Tenochtitian | Capital city of the Aztec Empire in the Valley of Mexico, on the site of present-day Mexico City |
| Dona Marina | Aztec woman who became an interpreter for Hernando Cortes during his conquest of the Aztec empire |
| conquest | capture or taking of something by force |
| New Spain | Colony established mostly in North America by Spain in 1535, included parts of what are today the United States, Mexico, Central America and the West Indies |
| Mexico City | Capital and largest city of Mexico, built as the capital of New Spain |
| convert | to change from one belief to another |
| colonist | Person who lives in a colony |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who defeated the Inca empire in 1533. |
| Atahualpa | Ruler of the Incas when the empire was invaded by the Spanish in 1531 |
| Cuzco | Capital of the Inca Empire, in current day Peru (South America) |
| Lima | Capital of Peru founded by Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro |
| Hernando de Soto | Spanish explorer who became the first European to reach the Mississippi river in 1541 |
| Esteban | 1500s African sailor who traveled throughout the Southwest region of the United States |
| Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | Spanish explorer who explored what is now Texas |
| Francisco Vasquez de Coranado | Spanish explorer of the American southwest |
| society | Group of people forming a community |
| plantations | Large farm with many workers who live on the land they work |
| encomienda | Grant given by the King of Spain to wealthy settlers in New Spain. Gave settlers control of all the Native Americans living on an area of land. |
| missionary | Person who teaches his or her religion to otherw who have different beliefs |
| mission | Religious settlement where missionaries live and work. |
| Bartolome de Las Casas | Spanish priest who spoke out against the mistreatment of Indians in New Spain |
| Hispaniola | Island in the Caribbean Sea, made up of Haiti and the Dominican Republic |
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