Vocabulary
New Netherland
The Treaty of Tordesillas moved the Line of Demarcation more than 800 miles farther west, allowing _____________ to claim eastern South America
Portugal
English explorer who sailed for the Dutch and landed at the coast of present day New York
Henry Hudson
Goal of missions in Spanish colonies
convert Native Americans to Christianity
regulated the treatment of slaves
Slave Codes
Transfer of plants, animals, and diseases between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres
Columbian Exchange
Native Americans has no _________ to several European diseases
immunity
Which explorer's crew became the first people to sail around the word?
Ferdinand Magellan
What was the Columbian Exchange?
movement of plants, animals, and diseases between hemispheres
Why did so many explorers look for a Northwest Passage?
Wanted to find an easier way to trade with Asia
Settlement created by the Spanish church in order to convert Native Americans to Christianity
Mission
Americans crops came to Europe through the
Columbian Exchange
Conquistador who brought the Aztecs to ruin
Hernando Cortes
What led to the slave trade increasing in the 1500s?
sugar plantations
How were missions not great for Native Americans
teated like slaves
Spaniard who fought for Native American rights
Bartolome de Las Casas
Each of the viceroyalities that Spain set up to govern its empire in the Americans was headed by a
Viceroy
Italian sailor who sailed for the English and is believed to have landed in Newfoundland, Canada
John Cabot
How were missions helpful for Native Americans
-consistent source of food
-protection from enemies
-learned how to read and write
-learned skills
How were haciendas and encomiendas related?
encomiendas provided the workers for the haciendas
Italian navigator who looked for a faster water route to Asia
Christopher Columbus
People of mixed Spanish and Native American blood were called
Mestizos
German mapmaker was impressed by Vespucci's account of the lands
What was the Europeans goal during the Age of Exploration
1. expand empire
2. increase wealth
3. spread Christianity
How was a small force of conquistadors a?ble to defeat the Aztec Empire?
empire was not a single unified nation