Explorers
Conquistadors
Colonial Life
Terms
Potpourri
100
Spanish adventurer who reached the Pacific Ocean by traveling overland through Panama.
Who is Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
100
This conquistador formed alliances with conquered people who hated the Aztecs to bring about their defeat.
Who is Hernan Cortes?
100
First permanent English colony in the Americas.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
100
Term for Spanish adventurers who conquered the New World.
Who are Conquistadors?
100
This treaty allowed Portugal to claim lands in modern day Brazil.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
200
Portuguese navigator; first to sail around Africa to Calcutta in India.
Who is Vasco Da Gama?
200
The conquistador who added the lands of the Incas by first capturing their ruler, Atahualpa.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
200
These people were at the top of Spanish society.
Who are the Peninsulares?
200
The trade route that transported African slaves to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
An island chain in present-day Indonesia; chief source of spices in the 1400s.
What are the Moluccas?
300
Portuguese nobleman who led the first expedition to circumnavigate the globe in 1522.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
300
A system used to force Native Americans to labor under brutal conditions.
What are the Encomiendas?
300
In Spanish colonial society, these people were native-born descendants of Spanish settlers.
Who were Creoles?
300
Line drawn by the pope dividing the non-European world into two zones split between Spain and Portugal.
What is the Line of Demarcation?
300
Pirates who operated with the approval of European governments.
Who were Privateers?
400
Portuguese prince who sponsored technology and map making to send Portuguese mariners around Africa and to Asia.
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
400
This Aztec ruler sent gifts to the Spanish after he heard of their arrival because he thought they might be gods.
Who is Montezuma?
400
This North American colony grew slowly because of the harsh winters and poor farm land.
What is New France?
400
The period in European history during the 1500s when inflation rose rapidly.
What is the Price Revolution?
400
Foods such as wheat and grapes were introduced to the Americas through this trade medium.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
500
He claimed the lands of the Taino in the West Indies for the Spanish king.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
500
These laws forbade the enslavement and abuse of Native Americans in the Spanish colonies.
What are the New Laws of the Indies?
500
These persecuted people set up the English colonies of Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Maryland.
Who were persecuted religious groups (Pilgrims, Quakers, and Catholics)?
500
An economic policy based on a nation exporting more goods than it imports.
What is Mercantilism?
500
These organizations allowed early European capitalists to raise large amounts of capital to achieve mercantile objectives.
What are Joint Stock Companies?
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