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Chapter 2: European Exploration and Settlement

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Marco Polo   Italian explorer who traveled throughout Asia with his father  
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Christopher Columbus   Italian explorer who was convinced the shortest route to the Indies lay west across the Atlantic Ocean  
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King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella   paid for Columbus' voyage  
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1492   year that Columbus set sail  
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Columbian Exchange   exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas  
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negative impact of the Columbian Exchange   diseases  
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positive impact of the Columbian Exchange   new crops and domesticated animals  
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Africans and Natives   people who the Spanish settlers enslaved  
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conquistador   Spanish explorer and soldier  
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Hernan Cortes   conquistador who conquered the Aztec people in Mexico  
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Tenochtitlan   capital city of the Aztec empire  
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Mexico City   what the Spanish renamed Tenochtitlan after they captured it  
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New Spain   name of the Spanish empire in the New World  
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Francisco Pizarro   conquistador who conquered the Inca people in Peru  
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Juan Ponce de Leon   conquistador who wanted to find the fountain of youth  
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colony   new settlement established by another country in another land  
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Seven Cities of Cibola   legend of seven cities made of gold  
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Francisco Coronado   conquistador who set out from Mexico City to find the cities of gold  
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pueblos   village of apartment like buildings made of stone and adobe  
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St. Augustine   oldest permanent European settlement in the United States  
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Catholic missionaries   accompanied conquistadores to the Spanish borderlands in hopes of converting the Native Americans  
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Jacques Cartier   French explorer who was set to explore the Atlantic coastline of America and hoped to find a Northwest Passage  
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Northwest Passage   a passage that was thought to connect the east and west coasts of the continent of North America that does not exisit  
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Samuel de Champlain   sailed up the St. Lawrence River and built a trading post named Quebec  
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Quebec   French trading post  
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Coureurs de bois   French fur trappers  
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Huron   Native American allies of the French  
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Iroquois   Native American allies of the Dutch  
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Fr. Marquette and Louis Joliet   discovered the Mississippi River  
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Robert de La Salle   explored the entire length of the Mississippi River and claimed it all west of it for France, calling it Louisiana  
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John Cabot   hoping to find a route to Asia, landed in Newfoundland and claimed the land for England  
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Sir Walter Raleigh   tried to start two colonies in Roanoke that both failed  
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CROATON   mysterious word left by the Roanoke colonists  
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Jamestown   English colony named after King James I  
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John Smith   took control of Jamestown and forced everyone to work before they ate  
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Pocahontas   Native American girl who helped save Jamestown from starvation  
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Starving Time   harsh winter where many Jamestown colonists starved because they did not have enough food  
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John Rolfe   married Pocahontas and discovered tobacco as a cash crop  
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Henry Hudson   sailor who explored the north Atlantic coastline for the Netherlands, hoping to find a Northwest Passage  
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Hudson River   named after Henry Hudson  
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Dutch   people from the Netherlands  
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Dutch West India Company   company started by Dutch merchants to start a colony in America  
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New Amsterdam   name of the Dutch colony  
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New York   name of the English colony that was taken over from the Dutch  
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