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Chapter 2
Early American Exploration
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| mission | religious communities that usually included a small town, surrounding farm land, and church. |
| plantation | a large estate. |
| mercantilism | economic theory that a nation's power was based on its wealth. |
| Columbian Exchange | the exchange of plants, animals, and diseases among the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
| Northwest Passage | a direct water route through the Americas to Asia that was never found. |
| conquistadors | Spanish explorers |
| pueblo | a spanish towns that were centers of trade. |
| encomienda | the right to demand taxes and labor from Native Americans. |
| Montezuma | Aztec Emperor |
| Hernan Cortes | Spanish explorer that conquered the Aztecs |
| tribute | money or items paid for protection |
| Athualpa | Inca Emperor |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish explorer that conquered the Inca |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | first Spanish to land on the mainland of North America in what is present day Florida |
| Bartolome de Las Casa | Spanish priest that condemned the cruel treatment of Native Americans. |
| peninsulares | upper class people who had been born in Spain |
| mestizos | people with Spanish and Native American parents |
| creoles | people born in America to Spanish parents |
| Native Americans | people who were native to the Americas |
| enslaved Africans | people who were from Africa that were enslaved for labor in the Americas |
| Hernando de Soto | first Spanish explorer to cross the Mississippi River. |
| John Calvin | a french religious thinker that broke away from the Catholic Church |
| Protestant Reformation | great religious and historical movement away from the Catholic Church |
| Martin Luther | German priest that began the Protestant Reformation |
| Henry Hudson | English Sailor that discovered Hudson Bay under the flag of the Netherlands |
| Samuel de Champlain | French explorer that established a settlement in Quebec and discovered Lake Champlain |
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