Vocab (People)
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Vocab (People) 2
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100

What was the name for the Spanish soldiers who led military expeditions in the Americas?

Conquistadors

100

What were large farms that grew just one kind of crop and made huge profits for their owners?

Plantations 

100

Who was the ruler of the Aztec empire during the early 1500s?

Moctezuma II

100

What does circumnavigate mean?

to go all the way around

100

What does animal does Mrs. Gitten's last name rhythm with?

Kittens

200

Who was the Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec empire? 

Hernán Cortés

200

What was the system that gave Spanish settlers the right to tax Native Americans or to make them work?

Encomienda system

200

Who was the conquistador who captured the Inca capital and killed the Inca leaders?

Francisco Pizarro

200

What is the name of the device used to determine a location based on the position of the stars?

astrolabe

200

What day of the week is Social Studies not in room 140?

Wednesday's

300

Who was the Portuguese prince who established a school of navigation and paid for expeditions?

Henry the Navigator 

300

What was the agreement between Spain and Portugal moving the Line of Demarcation?

Treaty of Tordesillas

300

Who was the sailor from Genoa, Italy who first discovered the Americas?

Christopher Columbus

300

What were the name of Portuguese ships that used triangular sails to sail against the wind

caravels

300

What is the name of the Principal of MS 202?

Mr. Fitzgerald

400

Who was the Viking who landed in present-day Canada in the year 1000?

Leif Eriksson

400

What was the transfer of plants and animals between the Americas and Asia, Africa, and Europe?

Columbian Exchange 

400

Who was the priest who wanted to convert Native Americans to Christianity by treating them in a better manner?

Bartolomé de Las Casas

400

Who was the Portuguese navigator whose expedition circumnavigated the globe?

Ferdinand Magellan

400

Where did Mr. Keane go to college?

University of Alabama

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