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Vocabulary
Vocabulary #2
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Relating to ancient Greece and Rome.
What does classical mean?
100
A nation's power is based upon its wealth.
What does Mercantilism mean?
100
Was sent on a mission to explore the southernmost part of Africa.
Who is Bartholomew Dias?
100
1/5 of all profits.
What did the Spanish Conquistadors have to give their King as tribute?
100
A narrow passage way connecting two large bodies of water.
What is a Strait?
200
A period of intellectual & artistic creativity. Encouraged individuals to pursue new ideas, and the age of discovery/exploration.
What is the Renaissance?
200
Spanish explorers who received grants/permission from the Spanish crown to go exploring and conquer lands and found colonies on behalf of the Spanish crown.
What is a Conquistador?
200
First European to see the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Balboa Crosse?
200
Religion, Financial Opportunity, Adventure, and available land.
Why did people want to colonize the Americas?
200
The towns the Spanish settled in the Americas for civillians.
What are Pueblos?
300
A journey to a Holy place.
What is a pilgrimage?
300
The portion of loot, money, gold, that was set aside for the monarchs that sent Conquistadors to the Americas.
What is tribute mean?
300
The emperor of the Aztecs who welcomed Cortez and his soldiers; giving them hospitality, and even a palace to stay in, but was then taken hostage by Cortez.
Who is Montezuma?
300
They founded the colony of New Netherlands and the city of New Amsterdam (New York City).
What is the effects of Dutch colonization in North America?
300
The exchange of goods, people, and ideas between Europe and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
400
A device designed to help people navigate ships at night to determine their Latitude.
What is an astrolabe?
400
It moved the line of demarcation further west.
What did the Treaty of Tordesillas do?
400
The French crown hired this explorer to find the "Northwest Passage" through North America to the Pacific Ocean.
Who is Verrazo?
400
1) Peninsulars- People born in Spain and came to the Americas to own land. 2) Creoles- People born in the Americas to Spanish parents. 3) Mestizos- People born from Native Americans and Spanish parents. 4) Native Americans 5) Enslaved Africans
What is the racial caste system developed by the Spanish in the Americas.
400
They wanted to trade with the locals for pelts and fish, as well as fish and hunt animals for their furs as well.
How were the French different from other colonies that came to the New World?
500
To travel around the world.
What does circumnavigate mean?
500
French trappers, "Runners of the Woods".
What does Coureurs de Bois mean?
500
A Portuguese mariner who led an expedition of five ships on a journey around the globe. He crossed the Atlantic Ocean and down the eastern coast of South America, sailed through a strait around the southern tip of South America into the Pacific Ocean. He was killed in the Philippines; but his crew finished the journey around the globe.
Who is Magellan?
500
They had firearms which were not only deadly, but scary to the natives. The Spanish introduced horses to the America also brought large war dogs with them. The Spanish also made alliances with local people's to fight the larger empires that had been oppressing their fellow locals. Diseases was also a major factor.
What were Spanish military advantages fighting the natives of the Americas?
500
England, France, and Netherlands
Which countries were not included in the Treaty of Tordesillas?