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Chapter 4
European Quest for New Land
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| middlemen | traders who bought goods from producers and then sold them to other traders or consumers. |
| cartographer | mapmaker |
| Northwest Passage | water route to Asia through North American continent |
| isthmus | narrow strip of land connecting the two larger areas |
| conquistador | Spanish conqueror |
| skirmishes | minor, short term fightsy o |
| missionary | one who is sent out on a religious mission |
| Francisco de Vasquez Coranado | Spanish explorer who was looking for the Seven Cities of Cibola and who traveled into Oklahoma |
| Quivira | mythological city of gold which Coronado was seeking. Quivira was allegedly in Oklahoma/ |
| Juan de Padilla | a friar who traveled with the Coronado expedition and who stayed with the Wichita Indians to try and establish a mission among the Indians, He was held captive for a year then had to march from central Oklahoma to the Gulf Coast. |
| Hernando de Soto | Spanish explorer who hoped to find wealth and gold. His expedition spent the winter of 1542 in Arkansas. |
| Juan de Onate | Spanish explorer who came to Oklahoma in 1601 in search of Quivira. |
| French explorers | came to the New World looking for fur and trade; they were looking for the Northwest Passage through North America. |
| colony | group of people who settle in another land but who are still under the rule of their native land. |
| Jacques Marquette | traveled by canoe down the Mississippi River to a Quapaw village at the mouth of the Arkansas River, |
| La Salle | French explorer that hoped to establish a string of trading posts down the Mississippi River. |
| Louisiana | land drained by the MIssissippi River claimed by La Salle for France. |
| La Harpe | French explorer who established a trading post along the Red River in 1719. He explored much of eastern Oklahoma. |
| Wichita Indians | welcomed a trading partnership with the French. They wanted guns and ammunition to defend their villages and the French wanted fur and buffalo hides. |
| England | began establishing colonies along the Atlantic Coast as it felt the country that controlled North America would be more powerful. |
| coureur de bois | French fur traders and trappers who settled in Oklahoma and took Native American wives. |
| economy | all activities in the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. |
| calumet | long ceremonial pipe |
| diseases | Native Americans had no immunity to diseases that the Europeans brought to North America such as smallpox and millions died. |