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02 Heritage Studies5
European Exploration and Settlement
Term | Definition |
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caravan | a group of traders who travel together to trade and sell their goods |
compass | Chinese invention that allowed sailors to know which direction they were sailing |
quadrant | a tool invented by the Arabs that sailors used to determine their location |
small triangular sails | gives a ship power |
Dias | explored the coast of Africa for Portugal |
Columbus | set foot on an island in the Americas in 1492 |
Las Casas | became a monk and wrote about the treatment of the American Indians |
John Smith | made the colonists at Jamestown work in the fields |
Peter Stuyvesant | governed New Netherland |
New France | settlement that made an agreement with the Iroquois and Hurons, established fur trading, and had to fight cold weather |
Vasco da Gama | first person to sail from Europe to India |
Jamestown | colony founded by England where many colonists refused to work |
Plymouth | colony where Patuxet Indian taught Pilgrims to grow food |
the pope | declared that Indians were humans with souls |
Puritans | people who wanted to change the Church of England by removing the false teachings and practices |
Separatists | people who started their own churches and kept apart from the Church of England |
indentured servants | people became this to pay for their voyage to America |
John Winthrop | first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony who wanted the community to be a model of Christian love |
persevere | what Columbus persuaded his restless men to do |
Massachusetts Bay Colony | set us a congregational church government |
Powhatan | chief of several woodland tribes in the Chesapeake Bay area |
how English cities motivated people to start colonies | religious reasons because English cities had become wicked |