People
Viking who landed in present day Canada in year 1000
Leif Eriksson
device used to determine location based on the position of the stars
Astrolabe
Line of Demarcation
agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation
Treaty of Tordesillas
Portuguese ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind
Caravel
Portuguese prince who established a school of navigation and paid for expeditions
Henry the Navigator
water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Northwest Passage
large farms that grew just one kind of crop and made huge profits for their owners
plantations
the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe
Columbian Exchange
to go all the way around
circumnavigate
sailor from Genoa, Italy
Cristopher Columbus
French explorer who sailed up the Saint Lawrence River looking for the Northwest Passage
Jacques Cartier
reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church's practices
Protestants
system that gave settlers the right to tax Native Americas or to make them work
encomienda system
Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas
conquistadors
Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe
Ferdinand Magellan
document giving permission to start a colony
charter
huge fleet of Spanish warships
priest who wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity by treating them in a better manner
Bartolome de las Casas
conquistador who captured the Inca capital and killed the Inca leaders
Francisco Pizarro
conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire
Hernan Cortes
reformers who protested some of the Catholic Church's practices
Protestant
water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific
Northwest Passage
religious movement that began as an effort to reform the Catholic Church
Protestant Reformation
ruler of the Aztec empire during the early 1500s
Moctezuma II