Ferdinand and Isabella.

Financiers and beneficiaries of Columbus's voyages to the New World.

Portuguese navigators who sailed around the African coast.

Founded in 1565, the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in United States territory.

Italian born navigator sent by Spanish to explore North American coast in 1492. Thereafter revisiting on 3 more voyages in: 1493; 1498; 1502.

Powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors.

Flourishing West African kingdom that had its capital and university at Timbuktu.

Mistaken term that European explorers gave to American lands because of the false belief that they were off the coast of Asia.

Animal introduced by Europeans that transformed the Indian way of life on the great plains.

smallpox, malaria, yellow fever.

Among the major European diseases that devastated native American populations after 1492

Disease originating in Americas that was transmitted to Europeans after 1492.

Roman catholic religious order of friars that organized a chain of missions in California.

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Chapter 1 of the American Pageant 12th edition

Question	Answer
Malinche	Female Indian slave who served as interpreter for Cortes.
Hiawatha	Legendary founder of the powerful Iroquois Confederacy.
Tenochtitlan	Wealthy capital of the Aztec empire.
Ferdinand and Isabella.	Financiers and beneficiaries of Columbus's voyages to the New World.
Dias and de Gama.	Portuguese navigators who sailed around the African coast.
St. Augustine.	Founded in 1565, the oldest continually inhabited European settlement in United States territory.
Columbus	Italian born navigator sent by Spanish to explore North American coast in 1492. Thereafter revisiting on 3 more voyages in: 1493; 1498; 1502.
Montezuma	Powerful Aztec monarch who fell to Spanish conquerors.
Spanish conquerors of great Indian civilizations.	Cortes and Pizarro.
Franciscan missionary who settled in California.	Junipero Serra
Extended period when glaciers covered most of the North American continent.	Ice age
Staple crop that formed the economic foundation of Indian civilizations.	maize
Important Mississippian culture site, near present East St. Louis, Illinois.	Cahokia
First European nation to send explorers around the west coast of Africa.	Portugal
Mali	Flourishing West African kingdom that had its capital and university at Timbuktu.
Indians	Mistaken term that European explorers gave to American lands because of the false belief that they were off the coast of Asia.
horse	Animal introduced by Europeans that transformed the Indian way of life on the great plains.
smallpox, malaria, yellow fever.	Among the major European diseases that devastated native American populations after 1492
syphilis	Disease originating in Americas that was transmitted to Europeans after 1492.
Treaty the secured Spanish title to lands in Americas by dividing them with Portugal.	Treaty of Tordesillas
Indian uprising in New Mexico caused by Spanish efforts to suppress Indian religion.	Pope's Rebellion
Indian people of the Rio Grange Valley who were cruelly oppressed by the Spanish conquerors.	Pueblos
Franciscans.	Roman catholic religious order of friars that organized a chain of missions in California.

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