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US Hist 11 Ch 1 peop
US History - chapter 1 review - People
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Leif Ericson | Viking adventurer who landed in North America around AD 1000 |
| Moors | Muslims from North America |
| Marco Polo | Italian merchant who became the first European to travel the length of Asia |
| Johann Gutenberg | German printer who introduced the movable-type printing press in Europe around 1440 |
| Martin Luther | German monk who protested false doctrines of the Roman Catholic church in 1517 |
| John Calvin | Protestant reformer who had an important influence on the people who colonized North America |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | Portuguese prince who founded a navigation school and encouraged exploration in the mid-1400s. |
| Bartholomeu Dias | Portuguese explorer who reached the Cape of Good Hope at the southern tip of Africa by 1488 |
| Vasco de Gama | Portuguese explorer who sailed around Africa to India |
| Christopher Columbus | Italian explorer who sailed across the Atlantic and accidentally discovered America in 1492 |
| Ferdinand and Isabella | Spanish monarchs who sponsored Columbus' voyage to the New World |
| Amerigo Vespucci | Italian sailor who was the first to realize that Columbus had discovered a new continent; America is named after him. |
| Pedro Cabral | Portuguese explorer who landed on the coast of Brazil and claimed that land for Portugal in 1500. |
| Ponce de Leon | Spanish explorer who embarked on a search for a fabled fountain of youth in 1513; made the first Spanish landing on the mainland of North America when he discovered Florida. |
| Vasco de Balboa | Spanish explorer who crossed the Isthmus of Panama and discovered the Pacific Ocean in 1513 |
| Ferdinand Magellan | Portuguese sailor employed by the Spanish; embarked on an epic three-year voyage around the world in 1519 |
| Hernando Cortes | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztecs of Mexico by 1521 |
| Montezuma | powerful chieftain of the Aztecs at the time of the Spanish conquest |
| Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conquistador who conquered the Incas of Peru by 1533 |
| Cabeza de Vaca | Spaniard who explored southern Texas and parts of New Mexico and Arizona between 1528 and 1536 |
| Francisco Coronado | Spanish explorer who explored what is today the southwestern United States in 1540; a party of his men discovered the Grand Canyon |
| Hernando de Soto | Spaniard who explored what is today the southeastern United States in 1540; discovered the Mississippi River in 1541 |
| Juan Cabrillo | Portuguese explorer employed by the Spanish; explored the coast of California in 1542 |
| Philip ll | king of Spain who sent the "Invincible Armada" against England in 1588 |
| Elizabeth l | Protestant queen of England at the time of the defeat of the Spanish Armada |
| Giovanni de Verrazano | Italian sailor who explored the eastern coast of North America for France in 1524 |
| Jaques Cartier | Frenchman who led an expedition that discovered the St. Lawrence River in 1534-1535 |
| Huguenots | French Protestants who established Charlesfort on the coast of South Carolina and Fort Caroline on the coast of Florida in the 1560s. |
| Samuel de Champlain | called the "Father of New France"; established Quebec, the first permanent French settlement in the New World in 1608 |
| Jacques Marquette | French Jesuit missionary who explored the Central Mississippi River in 1673 |
| Louis Joliet | French fur trader who explored the central Mississippi River with Marquette |
| Robert Cavelier de la Salle | French explorer who claimed the entire Mississippi alley and named it "Louisiana" in 1682 |
| Iroquois | America Indian tribe which did not ally themselves with the French |
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