Puritans
Indigenous Americans
Columbus
History Vocabulary
New Spain
100

Famous Puritan who was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

John Winthrop

100

Empire famous for building the largest Empire in pre-Columbian empire with its capitol near present day Peru

Inca

100

Year of Columbus's first expedition to the New World

1492

100

Define "pluralism"

A condition or system in which diverse groups, beliefs, and centers of power coexist peacefully and share influence within the same society

100

Infamous conquistador who defeated the Aztects

Cortes

200
Puritans wanted to ____________ the Anglican Church

Purify

200

Tribe also known as Mexica

Aztec

200

Nation that sponsored Columbus's first expedition to the New World

Spain

200

Define "theocracy"

Form of government in which one or more deities are recognized as supreme ruling authorities giving divine guidance to human intermediaries

200
Name of present day country that was the center of the Inca Empire

Peru

300

Famous female Puritan dissident who was exiled to Rhode Island

Anne Hutchinson 

300

Famous Mesoamerican civilization located in Southwestern Mexico and Central America from 2000 BCE to 250 CE

Mayans

300

Columbus was born in the Republic of Genoa in this current nation 

Italy

300

Define "homogenous"

Made of parts or elements that are all the same kind or uniform throughout

300

Royal rulers of Spain at time of Columbus's first voyage in 1492 

King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella

400
Winthrop said that America should be a __________________________ (taken from Jesus's Sermon on the Mount in the Gospel of Matthew

City on a Hill

400

Native Americans of the Southwestern United States known for their permanent, multi-story stone and adobe villages, and a revolt against Spain

Pueblo

400

 Where Columbus first landed in the New World

The Bahamas

400

Define "heterogenous"

Mixture of visibly different parts or elements

400

Conquistador who hoped to find Seven Cities of Gold in present day Southwest America and Mexico and claimed land for Spain in those areas

Coronado
500

Year that Puritans first landed in America

1630

500

First major civilization known as "Mother Culture" of Mesoamerica

Olmec

500

Number of Columbus's transatlantic voyages

four

500

Define "caste"

Fixed, hereditary social class into which a person is born

500

Spanish Dominican Priest who wrote directly to the King of Spain to complain about brutal treatment of natives by Spanish colonists in the New World

Bartolomé de Las Casas

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