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Chapter 1
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bartolomew Dias | Portuguese; first to sail around southern tip of Africa |
| Vasco da Gama | from India; first to sail from Europe to India by rounding the Cape of Good Hope |
| John Cabot | from England; discovered Newfoundland in 1497 |
| Ferdinand Magella | from Spice Island, Argentina; one of his ships sank in a bad storm |
| Hernando Cortes | Mexican; overthrew the Aztecs and won Mexico for the crown of Spain-- was first great Conquistador |
| Francisco de Coronado | from New Mexico; saw many well known landmarks on his voyages |
| Juan Ponce de Leon | from Puerto Rico; he explored the settled Puerto Rico founding the colony's oldest settlementHer |
| Hernando de Soto | Spanish; he and his settlers were the first Europeans to step foot in what is now Arkansas |
| Francis Drake | he circumnavigated the Earth preying on Spanish ships along the way |
| mound builders | ceremonial and burial sites which were often shaped like animals, birds, of geometric shapes |
| pueblos | developed complex irrigation systems |
| Eastern Woodlands | continuous development in stone and bone tools, leather crafting, textile manufacturing, cultivation and shelter construction |
| Paris- August 24/25, 1572 | massacre of French Huguenots |
| China innovations | compass, astrolabe, caravel |
| Mercantilists | wanted to achieve a favorable balance of trade, to export more than they imported |
| Chirstopher Columbus | said shortest route to the east was to go west; he sailed west and landed in the Bahamas |
| Amerigo Vespucci | made at least 2 voyages to the Caribbean South America |
| America | in 1507 a German mapmaker named the area Vespucci landed in America to honor him |
| Magellan | died in the Phillipines; his crew was the first to go around the world or circumnavigate it |
| Martin Luther | stood against the corruptions of the Roman Catholic church |
| Geneva, Switzerland | became one of the leading centers of the reformation |
| John Calvin | was Geneva's most influential leaders |
| American Indians | some historians believed they crossed the Bering Strait in small boats or on foot |
| Pueblos | lived in small villages with 2-3 family groups, were farmers who grew corn, squash and beans |
| Cliff dwellers | pueblos that lived in caves under the rims of the canyons |
| Zuni, Hopi, Taos | tribes that lived among the Pueblos |
| mound builders | developed in what is now the Midwest; built hundreds of mounds |
| Eastern Woodland Indians | lived in the southeast along the atlantic coast into the northeast |
| Eastern Woodland Indians | were probably the first Indians that others encountered in the new world, very skilled people |
| Eastern Woodland Indians | tribes in the group were Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks and Seminoles found in the south |
| Eastern Woodland Indians | northern tribes were Mohawks, Oneidas, Senecas, Cayugas, Onondagas, tuscaroras |
| St. Augustine | first Spanish settlement in 1565-oldest permanent city in the US |
| Hernando de Soto | landed in the Tampa Bay area in 1539, discovered the Mississippi River when traveling the deep south |
| Sir Francis Drake | most famous admiral during Queen Elizabeth, I rule- was also known as a sea dog |
| Protestant Wind | a firestorm that destroyed most of the Spanish Fleet and defeated the Spanish Armada |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | founded Roanoke which was known as the "Lost Colony" in North America |
| Henry Hudson | claimed the area of north atlantic coast of north americathat is now New York in 1609 |
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