Question | Answer |
Columbian Exchange | The transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Americas and Europe, Asia, and Africa. |
Circumnavigate | To travel all the way around the globe. |
Conquistador | A Spanish soldier and explorer who led military expeditions in the Americas and captured land for Spain. |
Encomienda System | A system in Spanish America that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protecting them and converting them to Christianity. |
Plantation | A large farm that usually specialized in growing one kind of crop for profit. |
Protestant Reformation | A religious movement begun by Martin Luther and others in 1517 to reform the Catholic Church. |
Spanish Armada | A large Spanish fleet defeated by England in 1588. |
Northwest Passage | A nonexistent path through North America that early explorers searched for that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean. |
Charter | An official document that gives a person the right to establish a colony. |
Sea Dogs | The name given to English sailors who raided Spanish treasure ships. The most successful sea dog was Sir Francis Drake. |
Tenochtitlan | King Moctezuma's capital city that was built on an island in the middle of Lake Texcoco. The city had temples, a palace. |
Viceroy | A royal official who runs a colony on behalf of the king. |
MIddle Passage | A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies. |
African Diaspora | the scattering of African slaves through out the New World, Brazil, New Spain, Carribean, Peru, Latin American and North America. |